Purple Pleasures
#81459e
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#81459e
RGB
129, 69, 158
OKLCh
50.2% 0.147 313.4°
CIELAB (D50)
40.0, 37.8, -38.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.4; on black, Lc -20.4. 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 14.3 and 13.8 and 59.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#81459e
protanopia
#4f4f9e · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#5c5c9d · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 59.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCadmium Violet at ΔE00 1.988: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cadmium VioletΔE00 1.988 · #7f3e98
- Murasaki PurpleΔE00 2.934 · #884898
- Purple SapphireΔE00 3.993 · #754b8f
- Perkin MauveΔE00 4.013 · #733c8e
- Dull VioletΔE00 4.185 · #803790
- Harley Hair PurpleΔE00 4.258 · #8547b5
- Pleasant PurpleΔE00 4.396 · #8833aa
- Amaranth PurpleΔE00 4.396 · #723f89
- ShinerΔE00 4.42 · #773ca7
- Tyrian ShimmerΔE00 4.422 · #9448b0
- StudioΔE00 4.496 · #724aa1
- Royal LilacΔE00 4.573 · #84549b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.