Violet
#9a0eea
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
#9a0eea
RGB
154, 14, 234
OKLCh
54.6% 0.276 306.3°
CIELAB (D50)
42.0, 73.2, -79.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 76.8; on black, Lc -24.9. 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 15.4 and 16.6 and 71.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a0eea
protanopia
#3838ea · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#5858e9 · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 71.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZǐ Lúo Lán Sè Violet at ΔE00 1.145: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Zǐ Lúo Lán Sè VioletΔE00 1.145 · #9f0fef
- Cosmic HeartΔE00 1.603 · #9601f4
- Vivid PurpleΔE00 2 · #9900fa
- Singapore OrchidΔE00 2.27 · #a020f0
- Electric VioletΔE00 2.521 · #8f00f1
- Vivid VioletΔE00 2.607 · #9f00ff
- Star Platinum PurpleΔE00 2.864 · #9500ff
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 2.978 · #8a2be2
- Purple ProtestΔE00 3.153 · #8822dd
- Vibrant VioletΔE00 3.408 · #9400d4
- Amethyst GanzstarΔE00 3.491 · #8f00ff
- Violet InkΔE00 3.535 · #9400d3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.