Midnight Pie
#372d52
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
#372d52
RGB
55, 45, 82
OKLCh
32.6% 0.065 295.0°
CIELAB (D50)
21.0, 11.9, -21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 98.6; 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 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.66:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#372d52
protanopia
#2e2e52 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#303052 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#32323e · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Purple at ΔE00 1.11: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Violet PurpleΔE00 1.11 · #3a2f52
- Parachute PurpleΔE00 2.119 · #362852
- Naggaroth NightΔE00 2.328 · #3d3354
- Astral AuraΔE00 2.447 · #363151
- Jakarta SkylineΔE00 2.481 · #3d325d
- Purple NoirΔE00 2.535 · #322c56
- Blackberry BlackΔE00 2.707 · #2e2848
- Sanctum of ShadowsΔE00 2.782 · #3c2f4e
- Cardinal MauveΔE00 2.954 · #2c284c
- Operetta MauveΔE00 3.298 · #3a284c
- ElderberryΔE00 3.405 · #2e2249
- Midnight VelvetΔE00 3.843 · #2a2243
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.