Cosmic Heart
#9601f4
A violet that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9601f4
RGB
150, 1, 244
OKLCh
54.6% 0.286 303.1°
CIELAB (D50)
41.7, 75.5, -85.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 14.1 and 15.5 and 71.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.61:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9601f4
protanopia
#3434f4 · ΔE00 14.1
deuteranopia
#5454f3 · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 71.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVivid Purple at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vivid PurpleΔE00 0.914 · #9900fa
- Electric VioletΔE00 1.348 · #8f00f1
- Star Platinum PurpleΔE00 1.419 · #9500ff
- VioletΔE00 1.603 · #9a0eea
- Amethyst GanzstarΔE00 1.918 · #8f00ff
- Zǐ Lúo Lán Sè VioletΔE00 2.097 · #9f0fef
- Vivid VioletΔE00 2.14 · #9f00ff
- Purple ClimaxΔE00 2.889 · #8800ff
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 2.905 · #8a2be2
- Punk Rock PinkΔE00 2.924 · #8811ff
- Singapore OrchidΔE00 3.002 · #a020f0
- Purple ProtestΔE00 3.138 · #8822dd
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.