Purple Zergling
#a15589
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a15589
RGB
161, 85, 137
OKLCh
55.7% 0.120 340.4°
CIELAB (D50)
46.9, 37.2, -14.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.4; on black, Lc -27.3. 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 20.2 and 20.0 and 55.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.18:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a15589
protanopia
#616189 · ΔE00 20.2
deuteranopia
#727287 · ΔE00 20.0
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 55.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeminism at ΔE00 1.807: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- FeminismΔE00 1.807 · #9d5783
- Cyclamen RedΔE00 1.817 · #a7598d
- Kyo PurpleΔE00 1.908 · #9d5b8b
- Bermuda OnionΔE00 2.259 · #9d5a8f
- Thimble RedΔE00 2.31 · #a05d8b
- Brilliant CarmineΔE00 2.572 · #ad548f
- PurplishΔE00 2.884 · #98568d
- Purple OrchidΔE00 2.936 · #ad4d8c
- Plum DustΔE00 3.016 · #aa4c8f
- Plum PassionΔE00 3.153 · #9b4b80
- La la LavenderΔE00 3.241 · #a3498a
- Verve VioletΔE00 3.403 · #944f80
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.