Dark Dreams
#332266
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#332266
RGB
51, 34, 102
OKLCh
31.5% 0.114 289.8°
CIELAB (D50)
18.8, 22.7, -38.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.6; 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 7.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.56:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#332266
protanopia
#242466 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#282866 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#2b2b51 · ΔE00 7.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndie Go at ΔE00 1.404: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Indie GoΔE00 1.404 · #2e2364
- ChristalleΔE00 2.234 · #382161
- Night FogΔE00 2.439 · #2d1962
- Paris MΔE00 2.451 · #312760
- Cluedo NightΔE00 3.15 · #2b245a
- Explorer of the GalaxiesΔE00 3.352 · #3a1f76
- Deep Space RodeoΔE00 3.398 · #332277
- VoldemortΔE00 3.898 · #2d135f
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.942 · #412a7a
- Her HighnessΔE00 4.151 · #432e6f
- Deep BreathΔE00 4.169 · #27275f
- Intergalactic CowboyΔE00 4.204 · #222266
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.