Violet Poison
#8601bf
A violet that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8601bf
RGB
134, 1, 191
OKLCh
47.9% 0.242 309.9°
CIELAB (D50)
35.0, 65.3, -65.9
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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.0; on black, Lc -18.0. 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 15.6 and 16.9 and 67.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.77:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8601bf
protanopia
#2e2ebf · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#4b4bbe · ΔE00 16.9
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 67.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Violet at ΔE00 2.233: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- French VioletΔE00 2.233 · #8806ce
- Shade of VioletΔE00 2.518 · #8601af
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 2.539 · #8822bb
- Lilac SpringΔE00 3.43 · #8822cc
- Violet InkΔE00 3.504 · #9400d3
- Vibrant VioletΔE00 3.598 · #9400d4
- Fuchsia NebulaΔE00 3.606 · #7722aa
- Minesweeper’s PurpleΔE00 4.322 · #8f1cae
- Puissant PurpleΔE00 4.545 · #7722cc
- Foxy FuchsiaΔE00 5.009 · #9f00c5
- Prom QueenΔE00 5.269 · #9b1dcd
- Noble Cause PurpleΔE00 5.315 · #7e1e9c
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.