Flying Carpet
#787489
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#787489
RGB
120, 116, 137
OKLCh
57.0% 0.032 294.1°
CIELAB (D50)
49.8, 4.9, -11.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.3; on black, Lc -30.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#787489
protanopia
#747489 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#757589 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#76767f · ΔE00 5.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Shade at ΔE00 1.24: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plum ShadeΔE00 1.24 · #78738b
- Early DawnΔE00 1.557 · #797287
- Capercaillie MauveΔE00 2.109 · #78728c
- MythicalΔE00 2.177 · #7e778e
- RitualΔE00 2.413 · #767081
- Dancing in the SpringΔE00 2.469 · #7b7289
- Peruvian VioletΔE00 2.781 · #7b7284
- Brewing StormΔE00 2.795 · #777788
- Ash MauveΔE00 2.966 · #737486
- Dull MauveΔE00 2.987 · #7d7485
- PaisleyΔE00 3.304 · #726f7e
- Batik LilacΔE00 3.369 · #7e738b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.