Wicked Purple
#37115c
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#37115c
RGB
55, 17, 92
OKLCh
28.6% 0.124 301.9°
CIELAB (D50)
15.0, 30.7, -37.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.3; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.2 and 8.6 and 37.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#37115c
protanopia
#18185c · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#21215c · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#282818 · ΔE00 37.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVanishing at ΔE00 1.412: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- VanishingΔE00 1.412 · #331155
- Fabric of SpaceΔE00 1.968 · #341758
- Candied BlueberryΔE00 2.796 · #331166
- Obsidian ShellΔE00 2.848 · #441166
- Cotinga PurpleΔE00 2.985 · #340059
- VoldemortΔE00 3.036 · #2d135f
- Hollow KnightΔE00 3.139 · #330055
- Infinite InkwellΔE00 3.193 · #2f1064
- Deep VioletΔE00 3.959 · #330066
- Russian VioletΔE00 4.062 · #32174d
- ChristalleΔE00 4.149 · #382161
- Night FogΔE00 4.176 · #2d1962
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.