Grape Candy
#905284
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#905284
RGB
144, 82, 132
OKLCh
52.8% 0.106 334.5°
CIELAB (D50)
43.7, 32.0, -16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.9; on black, Lc -23.8. 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 17.6 and 17.6 and 53.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.73:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#905284
protanopia
#5c5c84 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#696983 · ΔE00 17.6
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 53.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStriking Purple at ΔE00 1.636: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Striking PurpleΔE00 1.636 · #944e87
- Razzmic BerryΔE00 1.73 · #8d4e85
- Verve VioletΔE00 1.798 · #944f80
- Dynamic MagentaΔE00 1.861 · #8a547f
- Àn Zǐ PurpleΔE00 1.953 · #94568c
- PurplishΔE00 2.391 · #98568d
- DewberryΔE00 2.637 · #8b5987
- Mad About MagentaΔE00 2.673 · #94508e
- Thistle MauveΔE00 3.216 · #834d7c
- WillowherbΔE00 3.284 · #914681
- Plum SavourΔE00 3.411 · #915d88
- Plum PassionΔE00 3.47 · #9b4b80
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.