Eggplant
#430541
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#430541
RGB
67, 5, 65
OKLCh
27.2% 0.116 329.7°
CIELAB (D50)
13.7, 33.7, -20.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% 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 101.7; 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 15.4 and 16.1 and 44.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#430541
protanopia
#151541 · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#242440 · ΔE00 16.1
tritanopia
#2f2f00 · ΔE00 44.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJacarta at ΔE00 1.287: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- JacartaΔE00 1.287 · #440044
- Alien PurpleΔE00 1.574 · #490648
- Pion PurpleΔE00 1.853 · #480840
- Velvet CosmosΔE00 2.013 · #441144
- Christmas PurpleΔE00 2.36 · #4d084b
- Cured EggplantΔE00 3.252 · #380835
- Shani PurpleΔE00 3.273 · #4c1050
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 3.28 · #4e0550
- Greek AubergineΔE00 3.506 · #3d0734
- Romanic SceneΔE00 3.558 · #3b0346
- Deep PurpleΔE00 3.604 · #36013f
- Dark PurpleΔE00 3.628 · #35063e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.