8 Bit Eggplant
#990066
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#990066
RGB
153, 0, 102
OKLCh
45.1% 0.189 348.9°
CIELAB (D50)
33.8, 59.1, -13.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 86.2; on black, Lc -15.9. 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 27.2 and 25.4 and 59.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#990066
protanopia
#353566 · ΔE00 27.2
deuteranopia
#565663 · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 59.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomantic Vampire at ΔE00 1.022: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Romantic VampireΔE00 1.022 · #991166
- Red VioletΔE00 1.067 · #9e0168
- Morbid PrincessΔE00 2.118 · #9e0e64
- Cardinal PinkΔE00 2.56 · #8c055e
- Celestial DragonΔE00 2.882 · #992266
- Raspberry MagentaΔE00 3.072 · #9a1a60
- Possessed PurpleΔE00 3.717 · #881166
- Strong CeriseΔE00 3.845 · #960056
- Haunted PurpleΔE00 3.861 · #991177
- Deep MagentaΔE00 3.886 · #a0025c
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 3.888 · #871466
- Katy BerryΔE00 3.983 · #aa0077
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.