Midnight Velvet
#2a2243
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2a2243
RGB
42, 34, 67
OKLCh
27.8% 0.060 293.3°
CIELAB (D50)
15.5, 10.8, -19.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.7; 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 8.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.91:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.91:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2a2243
protanopia
#232343 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#252543 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#262634 · ΔE00 8.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThroat at ΔE00 1.065: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ThroatΔE00 1.065 · #281f3f
- Blackberry BlackΔE00 1.959 · #2e2848
- TelopeaΔE00 2.046 · #2d2541
- ElderberryΔE00 2.111 · #2e2249
- Cardinal MauveΔE00 2.665 · #2c284c
- Black MarketΔE00 3.284 · #222244
- Power OutageΔE00 3.485 · #332244
- Parachute PurpleΔE00 3.806 · #362852
- Midnight PieΔE00 3.843 · #372d52
- PāuaΔE00 4.027 · #2a2551
- AzuladoΔE00 4.422 · #211d49
- Prune PlumΔE00 4.428 · #211640
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.