Deep Sea Base
#2c2c57
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
#2c2c57
RGB
44, 44, 87
OKLCh
31.7% 0.075 281.2°
CIELAB (D50)
19.8, 10.1, -26.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.3; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
13.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2c2c57
protanopia
#2c2c57 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#2c2c57 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#2c2c57 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGalaxea at ΔE00 1.696: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GalaxeaΔE00 1.696 · #2e305e
- Ceremonial PurpleΔE00 1.747 · #2a2756
- Purple NoirΔE00 2.197 · #322c56
- PāuaΔE00 2.498 · #2a2551
- Lucky PointΔE00 2.543 · #292d4f
- Quill TipΔE00 2.818 · #2d3359
- Cardinal MauveΔE00 3.052 · #2c284c
- WahooΔE00 3.08 · #272d4e
- Royal CurtsyΔE00 3.195 · #282a4a
- Deep BreathΔE00 3.261 · #27275f
- Cluedo NightΔE00 3.303 · #2b245a
- Haunted DreamsΔE00 3.337 · #333355
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.