Purple Excellency
#943589
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#943589
RGB
148, 53, 137
OKLCh
49.5% 0.162 332.6°
CIELAB (D50)
39.0, 48.0, -26.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.3; on black, Lc -19.6. 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 21.5 and 20.5 and 60.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#943589
protanopia
#484889 · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#5e5e88 · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#717100 · ΔE00 60.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHollyhock at ΔE00 1.871: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- HollyhockΔE00 1.871 · #913881
- Warm PurpleΔE00 1.913 · #952e8f
- DahliaΔE00 2.941 · #8b4189
- Purple SultanΔE00 3.064 · #853682
- Purple WineΔE00 3.228 · #97397f
- Sparkling GrapeΔE00 3.708 · #82387e
- Plum PieΔE00 3.746 · #8e4585
- Violet VixenΔE00 3.76 · #883377
- Violet WebcapΔE00 3.788 · #833e82
- Evil CurseΔE00 3.881 · #884488
- Flesh FlyΔE00 4.007 · #894585
- Acai JuiceΔE00 4.128 · #942193
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.