HueComb

Legendary Lavender

#9d61d4

A violet that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#9d61d4

RGB

157, 97, 212

OKLCh

60.9% 0.175 306.0°

CIELAB (D50)

51.9, 41.2, -50.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.0; on black, Lc -33.7. 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 13.2 and 12.6 and 64.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.12:1 — large text only

Black text

5.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#975acd is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9d61d4

protanopia

#6a6ad4 · ΔE00 13.2

deuteranopia

#7777d3 · ΔE00 12.6

tritanopia

#83830a · ΔE00 64.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmethyst at ΔE00 1.896: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.