Prunella
#864788
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#864788
RGB
134, 71, 136
OKLCh
49.9% 0.123 326.1°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, 34.9, -24.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.6; on black, Lc -20.3. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 16.7 and 16.0 and 55.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.42:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.27:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.42:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#864788
protanopia
#515188 · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#5f5f87 · ΔE00 16.0
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 55.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLilikoi Flower Purple at ΔE00 0.823: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lilikoi Flower PurpleΔE00 0.823 · #874886
- Evil CurseΔE00 0.904 · #884488
- Flesh FlyΔE00 1.329 · #894585
- DahliaΔE00 1.851 · #8b4189
- Purpurite RedΔE00 2.027 · #864480
- Vibrant OrchidΔE00 2.358 · #804b81
- Violet WebcapΔE00 2.441 · #833e82
- Plum PieΔE00 2.471 · #8e4585
- Pickled PlumΔE00 2.549 · #8e4785
- Cosmic BerryΔE00 2.558 · #8b4f90
- Visiona RedΔE00 2.667 · #83477d
- Voodoo VioletΔE00 2.728 · #824d8f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.