Warm Purple
#952e8f
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#952e8f
RGB
149, 46, 143
OKLCh
49.2% 0.177 330.3°
CIELAB (D50)
38.4, 51.8, -31.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.7; on black, Lc -19.2. 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 21.7 and 20.9 and 62.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.07:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#952e8f
protanopia
#44448f · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#5c5c8e · ΔE00 20.9
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 62.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Excellency at ΔE00 1.913: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple ExcellencyΔE00 1.913 · #943589
- Acai JuiceΔE00 2.285 · #942193
- Purple InkΔE00 3.14 · #9a2ca0
- Nebula OutpostΔE00 3.239 · #922b9c
- Purple SultanΔE00 3.533 · #853682
- Violet EggplantΔE00 3.629 · #991199
- Barney PurpleΔE00 3.687 · #a00498
- HollyhockΔE00 3.689 · #913881
- Purple Tone InkΔE00 3.886 · #a22da4
- Leviathan PurpleΔE00 3.902 · #8b2a98
- DahliaΔE00 4.065 · #8b4189
- Vanishing NightΔE00 4.105 · #990088
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.