Plum Passion
#9b4b80
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b4b80
RGB
155, 75, 128
OKLCh
53.0% 0.125 341.9°
CIELAB (D50)
43.7, 39.0, -14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.9; on black, Lc -23.9. 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 20.9 and 20.6 and 55.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.71:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b4b80
protanopia
#595980 · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#6b6b7e · ΔE00 20.6
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 55.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrchid Lei at ΔE00 0.908: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Orchid LeiΔE00 0.908 · #9c4a7d
- Grape RiotΔE00 1.617 · #9b4682
- Verve VioletΔE00 1.845 · #944f80
- La la LavenderΔE00 2.528 · #a3498a
- Vivid ViolaΔE00 2.905 · #a4407e
- Striking PurpleΔE00 2.98 · #944e87
- Viva MagentaΔE00 3.078 · #a0488c
- Purple ZerglingΔE00 3.153 · #a15589
- Pink BalladΔE00 3.181 · #a6427c
- WillowherbΔE00 3.299 · #914681
- Sugar PlumΔE00 3.319 · #914e75
- Romantic RoseΔE00 3.343 · #aa4488
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.