Magic Magenta
#7f4774
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7f4774
RGB
127, 71, 116
OKLCh
48.1% 0.098 334.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.4, 29.6, -15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.5; on black, Lc -18.4. 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 16.8 and 17.2 and 50.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.06:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f4774
protanopia
#505074 · ΔE00 16.8
deuteranopia
#5c5c73 · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 50.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBruise at ΔE00 1.958: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BruiseΔE00 1.958 · #7e4071
- Purple PassionΔE00 1.966 · #784674
- Club MauveΔE00 1.967 · #834370
- Deep Commitment to PurpleΔE00 1.985 · #7d4071
- Wood VioletΔE00 1.99 · #78426f
- Spring Lobster DyeΔE00 1.996 · #7a4171
- Grape KissΔE00 2.07 · #82476f
- Graphic GrapeΔE00 2.109 · #824e78
- Thistle MauveΔE00 2.161 · #834d7c
- Visiona RedΔE00 2.294 · #83477d
- Madder MagentaΔE00 2.389 · #80496e
- Phlox Flower VioletΔE00 2.459 · #7f4f78
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.