Venus Violet
#7a6dc0
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7a6dc0
RGB
122, 109, 192
OKLCh
58.4% 0.125 289.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.1, 20.3, -42.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.4; on black, Lc -31.3. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
4.40:1 — large text only
Black text
4.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#786bbe is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a6dc0
protanopia
#6f6fc0 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#7171c0 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#7474aa · ΔE00 4.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Toolbox at ΔE00 1.632: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple ToolboxΔE00 1.632 · #746cc0
- Ultra VioletΔE00 2.67 · #7366bd
- Clear MauveΔE00 2.882 · #766cb0
- Lavish SpendingΔE00 3.742 · #8469bc
- MediaevalΔE00 4.402 · #696db0
- Wintertime MauveΔE00 4.417 · #786daa
- Purple HebeΔE00 4.508 · #8773bb
- Kickstart PurpleΔE00 4.647 · #7777cc
- Jacaranda JazzΔE00 4.686 · #6c70a9
- UbeΔE00 4.716 · #8878c3
- C64 PurpleΔE00 4.879 · #6f6ed1
- True VΔE00 5.052 · #8e72c7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.