Dark Purple
#35063e
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#35063e
RGB
53, 6, 62
OKLCh
24.5% 0.105 320.5°
CIELAB (D50)
10.7, 29.2, -23.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.1; 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 12.0 and 12.7 and 40.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.25:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#35063e
protanopia
#11113e · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#1c1c3e · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#252500 · ΔE00 40.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Purple at ΔE00 1.189: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep PurpleΔE00 1.189 · #36013f
- Dark VioletΔE00 1.325 · #34013f
- Romanic SceneΔE00 2.056 · #3b0346
- Poisonous PurpleΔE00 2.595 · #2a0134
- PorphyrophobiaΔE00 2.71 · #2a0033
- Edge of SpaceΔE00 2.753 · #330044
- Exquisite EggplantΔE00 2.942 · #330033
- Purple DoorΔE00 3.006 · #331144
- Midnight PurpleΔE00 3.081 · #280137
- EggplantΔE00 3.628 · #430541
- JacartaΔE00 3.681 · #440044
- Cured EggplantΔE00 3.759 · #380835
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.