Possessed Purple
#881166
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#881166
RGB
136, 17, 102
OKLCh
42.7% 0.170 343.5°
CIELAB (D50)
31.1, 52.5, -17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.2; on black, Lc -13.0. 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 24.4 and 23.3 and 57.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#881166
protanopia
#333366 · ΔE00 24.4
deuteranopia
#4e4e64 · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 57.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBane of Royalty at ΔE00 0.279: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 0.279 · #871466
- GrapestΔE00 1.163 · #880066
- Cardinal PinkΔE00 2.49 · #8c055e
- Xereus PurpleΔE00 2.929 · #7d0061
- 8 Bit EggplantΔE00 3.717 · #990066
- Persian Luxury PurpleΔE00 3.814 · #990077
- Haunted PurpleΔE00 3.91 · #991177
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 4.084 · #881177
- Romantic VampireΔE00 4.158 · #991166
- Purple CurseΔE00 4.206 · #771166
- Mirage of VioletsΔE00 4.274 · #7b1c6e
- Noble PlumΔE00 4.299 · #871f78
4 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.