Haunted Purple
#991177
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#991177
RGB
153, 17, 119
OKLCh
46.5% 0.190 341.6°
CIELAB (D50)
35.2, 58.2, -21.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.2; on black, Lc -16.8. 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 25.6 and 24.3 and 61.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#991177
protanopia
#393977 · ΔE00 25.6
deuteranopia
#585875 · ΔE00 24.3
tritanopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 61.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPersian Luxury Purple at ΔE00 0.957: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Persian Luxury PurpleΔE00 0.957 · #990077
- Katy BerryΔE00 3.635 · #aa0077
- 8 Bit EggplantΔE00 3.861 · #990066
- Blissful BerryΔE00 3.908 · #aa1188
- Possessed PurpleΔE00 3.91 · #881166
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 3.989 · #871466
- Noble PlumΔE00 3.995 · #871f78
- Vanishing NightΔE00 3.999 · #990088
- Red VioletΔE00 4.037 · #9e0168
- Fabric of LoveΔE00 4.064 · #aa1177
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 4.071 · #881177
- Romantic VampireΔE00 4.123 · #991166
3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.