Purple Climax
#8800ff
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
#8800ff
RGB
136, 0, 255
OKLCh
53.9% 0.294 296.5°
CIELAB (D50)
40.5, 75.6, -93.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 77.4; on black, Lc -24.4. 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 11.3 and 12.6 and 21.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.49:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8800ff
protanopia
#2e2eff · ΔE00 11.3
deuteranopia
#4c4cfe · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#62628b · ΔE00 21.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPunk Rock Pink at ΔE00 0.726: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Punk Rock PinkΔE00 0.726 · #8811ff
- Amethyst GanzstarΔE00 1.211 · #8f00ff
- Poisoning PurpleΔE00 1.492 · #7f01fe
- Violent VioletΔE00 1.494 · #7f00ff
- Szöllősi GrapeΔE00 1.951 · #8020ff
- Electric VioletΔE00 2.181 · #8f00f1
- Star Platinum PurpleΔE00 2.281 · #9500ff
- Cosmic HeartΔE00 2.889 · #9601f4
- Vivid PurpleΔE00 3.098 · #9900fa
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 3.856 · #8a2be2
- Bright IndigoΔE00 3.975 · #6f00fe
- Purple ProtestΔE00 3.988 · #8822dd
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.