Magician’s Cloak
#784467
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#784467
RGB
120, 68, 103
OKLCh
46.1% 0.086 340.4°
CIELAB (D50)
36.3, 26.8, -10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.7; on black, Lc -16.4. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 17.2 and 18.1 and 46.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.82:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#784467
protanopia
#4c4c67 · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#575766 · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 46.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScintillating Violet at ΔE00 1.732: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Scintillating VioletΔE00 1.732 · #764663
- Purple DrabΔE00 1.817 · #754260
- Madder MagentaΔE00 2.206 · #80496e
- Old Fashioned PurpleΔE00 2.437 · #73486b
- Grape KissΔE00 2.493 · #82476f
- Fig ClusterΔE00 2.649 · #784a65
- Vivacious VioletΔE00 2.785 · #804665
- Burnt OrchidΔE00 2.844 · #743d68
- Brocade VioletΔE00 2.846 · #7b4d6b
- Wood VioletΔE00 2.919 · #78426f
- Dirty PurpleΔE00 2.977 · #734a65
- Mystique VioletΔE00 3.019 · #723d5b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.