Bermuda Onion
#9d5a8f
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9d5a8f
RGB
157, 90, 143
OKLCh
56.2% 0.112 335.1°
CIELAB (D50)
47.6, 33.9, -17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.7; on black, Lc -28.0. 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 18.4 and 18.1 and 55.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.89:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.89:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9d5a8f
protanopia
#64648f · ΔE00 18.4
deuteranopia
#73738e · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#818100 · ΔE00 55.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKyo Purple at ΔE00 1.287: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kyo PurpleΔE00 1.287 · #9d5b8b
- PurplishΔE00 1.719 · #98568d
- Thimble RedΔE00 2.182 · #a05d8b
- Purple ZerglingΔE00 2.259 · #a15589
- Àn Zǐ PurpleΔE00 2.473 · #94568c
- Cyclamen RedΔE00 2.735 · #a7598d
- Plum SavourΔE00 3.132 · #915d88
- FeminismΔE00 3.188 · #9d5783
- Antique FuchsiaΔE00 3.724 · #915c83
- Grape CandyΔE00 3.798 · #905284
- Meadow MauveΔE00 3.826 · #ac5d91
- Brilliant CarmineΔE00 3.834 · #ad548f
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.