Sanctum of Shadows
#3c2f4e
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
#3c2f4e
RGB
60, 47, 78
OKLCh
33.4% 0.056 302.8°
CIELAB (D50)
22.0, 11.7, -17.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 98.0; 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 5.6 and 5.8 and 22.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.71:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c2f4e
protanopia
#31314e · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#33334e · ΔE00 5.8
tritanopia
#36362d · ΔE00 22.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJagger at ΔE00 1.75: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- JaggerΔE00 1.75 · #3f2e4c
- Violet PurpleΔE00 1.798 · #3a2f52
- Naggaroth NightΔE00 1.911 · #3d3354
- Obsidian Lava BlackΔE00 1.959 · #382b46
- Devil’s PlumΔE00 2.093 · #423450
- MaharajaΔE00 2.651 · #3f354f
- Midnight PieΔE00 2.782 · #372d52
- Operetta MauveΔE00 2.816 · #3a284c
- Acai BerryΔE00 2.926 · #42314b
- Caddies SilkΔE00 3.302 · #3e354d
- Purple PlumeriaΔE00 3.396 · #473854
- Astral AuraΔE00 3.458 · #363151
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.