Crown Jewels
#946dad
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#946dad
RGB
148, 109, 173
OKLCh
59.8% 0.104 311.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.9, 25.1, -28.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.5; on black, Lc -33.1. 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 11.0 and 10.4 and 55.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.16:1 — large text only
Black text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e67a7 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#946dad
protanopia
#7272ad · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#7a7aac · ΔE00 10.4
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 55.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKnight Elf at ΔE00 0.559: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Knight ElfΔE00 0.559 · #926cac
- Violet FrogΔE00 0.807 · #926eae
- HyacinthΔE00 1.408 · #936ca7
- Amethyst OrchidΔE00 1.683 · #926aa6
- Ce SoirΔE00 2.324 · #9271a7
- AlliumΔE00 2.811 · #9569a3
- Fairy WrenΔE00 2.868 · #8a6fa9
- FigueΔE00 2.901 · #9469a2
- Empire VioletΔE00 3.527 · #9264a2
- ViolaΔE00 3.575 · #966ebd
- Romantic MomentΔE00 3.587 · #9076ae
- Dark LilacΔE00 3.748 · #9c6da5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.