Lusty Lavender
#8d5eb7
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8d5eb7
RGB
141, 94, 183
OKLCh
57.0% 0.140 306.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, 32.7, -40.3
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 uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.8; on black, Lc -28.9. 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 11.7 and 11.0 and 58.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.42:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8d5eb7
protanopia
#6565b7 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#6e6eb6 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#787817 · ΔE00 58.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrunks Hair at ΔE00 3.205: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Trunks HairΔE00 3.205 · #9b5fc0
- Liberal LilacΔE00 3.63 · #9955bb
- Morado PurpleΔE00 4.421 · #9955cc
- AmethystΔE00 4.568 · #9966cc
- Lavish SpendingΔE00 4.82 · #8469bc
- Purple PlumΔE00 5.037 · #9c51b6
- Ripe LavanderΔE00 5.174 · #a259ce
- Chive BlossomΔE00 5.259 · #86619f
- Royal Gramma PurpleΔE00 5.31 · #a152bd
- Legendary LavenderΔE00 5.344 · #9d61d4
- ViolaΔE00 5.351 · #966ebd
- Prickly PurpleΔE00 5.55 · #a264ba
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.