Blackmail
#220066
A violet that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#220066
RGB
34, 0, 102
OKLCh
25.5% 0.150 283.9°
CIELAB (D50)
10.3, 36.7, -52.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 102.3; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.26:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#220066
protanopia
#060666 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#0f0f66 · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#161652 · ΔE00 7.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBavarian Gentian at ΔE00 1.291: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bavarian GentianΔE00 1.291 · #20006d
- Darth TorusΔE00 1.775 · #1d045d
- The Vast of NightΔE00 2.333 · #110066
- Child of the NightΔE00 2.736 · #220077
- CrowberryΔE00 3.107 · #220055
- Quantum of LightΔE00 3.191 · #130173
- Deep VioletΔE00 3.301 · #330066
- Scoop of Dark MatterΔE00 3.338 · #110055
- PrunelleΔE00 3.347 · #220878
- Galactic FederationΔE00 3.352 · #330077
- Ocean AbyssΔE00 3.435 · #221166
- Underground StreamΔE00 3.438 · #120a65
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.