Hello Darkness My Old Friend
#802280
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#802280
RGB
128, 34, 128
OKLCh
44.0% 0.168 328.0°
CIELAB (D50)
32.4, 48.6, -32.0
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 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.3; on black, Lc -13.8. 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 19.9 and 19.5 and 59.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.46:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#802280
protanopia
#373780 · ΔE00 19.9
deuteranopia
#4d4d7f · ΔE00 19.5
tritanopia
#5f5f00 · ΔE00 59.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCount’s Wardrobe at ΔE00 2.02: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Count’s WardrobeΔE00 2.02 · #772277
- Violaceous GretiΔE00 2.297 · #881188
- Mardi GrasΔE00 2.887 · #880085
- Noble PlumΔE00 2.992 · #871f78
- Philippine VioletΔE00 3.001 · #81007f
- Pure PurpleΔE00 3.042 · #751973
- PurpleΔE00 3.105 · #800080
- Dark MagentaΔE00 3.272 · #8b008b
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 3.378 · #881177
- Mirage of VioletsΔE00 3.656 · #7b1c6e
- Veronica PurpleΔE00 3.904 · #7e3075
- Druchii VioletΔE00 3.926 · #842994
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.