Royal Lavender
#7851a9
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7851a9
RGB
120, 81, 169
OKLCh
51.8% 0.138 302.3°
CIELAB (D50)
42.0, 30.7, -41.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.4; on black, Lc -22.5. 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 9.6 and 9.2 and 39.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.55:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7851a9
protanopia
#5656a9 · ΔE00 9.6
deuteranopia
#5e5ea9 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#67674f · ΔE00 39.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStudio at ΔE00 2.44: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- StudioΔE00 2.44 · #724aa1
- Sumire VioletΔE00 3.288 · #7058a3
- Prophet VioletΔE00 3.459 · #6f58a6
- Parfait d’AmourΔE00 3.735 · #734f96
- Passion FlowerΔE00 4.113 · #6f5698
- Harley Hair PurpleΔE00 4.132 · #8547b5
- RollickΔE00 4.275 · #6d5698
- JuneberryΔE00 4.466 · #775496
- Simply PurpleΔE00 4.554 · #715bb1
- Ultrapurple MergeΔE00 4.581 · #654ea3
- Fuchsia BlueΔE00 4.881 · #7a58c1
- Purple PleasuresΔE00 5.194 · #81459e
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.