Fandango
#b53389
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b53389
RGB
181, 51, 137
OKLCh
54.4% 0.187 344.5°
CIELAB (D50)
44.5, 58.2, -17.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 26.8 and 24.8 and 63.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.80:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b53389
protanopia
#515189 · ΔE00 26.8
deuteranopia
#6f6f87 · ΔE00 24.8
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 63.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLust Priestess at ΔE00 1.534: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lust PriestessΔE00 1.534 · #bb3388
- Loulou’s PurpleΔE00 1.823 · #bb2288
- Medium Red VioletΔE00 2.022 · #bb3385
- Very BerryΔE00 2.833 · #bb3381
- Rrosy-Fingered DawnΔE00 2.938 · #c11c84
- Romantic RoseΔE00 2.994 · #aa4488
- Wild AsterΔE00 3.082 · #a53783
- Vibrant VelvetΔE00 3.638 · #bb0088
- Festival FuchsiaΔE00 3.675 · #aa2f78
- Vivid ViolaΔE00 3.709 · #a4407e
- Fuchsia FlourishΔE00 3.765 · #bb2299
- Medium Violet RedΔE00 3.769 · #c71585
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.