Your Darkness
#220044
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#220044
RGB
34, 0, 68
OKLCh
21.2% 0.114 298.9°
CIELAB (D50)
6.4, 29.0, -35.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 104.1; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 7.4 and 7.2 and 21.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
18.24:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.15:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at18.24:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#220044
protanopia
#060644 · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#0f0f44 · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#161619 · ΔE00 21.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMagic Whale at ΔE00 3.662: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Magic WhaleΔE00 3.662 · #17034a
- CrowberryΔE00 3.674 · #220055
- Hollow KnightΔE00 3.902 · #330055
- Oily PurpleΔE00 4.064 · #2d0f47
- Indigo SlothΔE00 4.313 · #1f0954
- Cotinga PurpleΔE00 4.402 · #340059
- Floppy DiskΔE00 4.512 · #110044
- Middle Red PurpleΔE00 4.593 · #210837
- VanishingΔE00 4.639 · #331155
- Coal MineΔE00 4.666 · #220033
- Edge of SpaceΔE00 4.704 · #330044
- Shadow PlanetΔE00 4.711 · #221144
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.