Plunged Into Darkness
#431c53
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#431c53
RGB
67, 28, 83
OKLCh
31.1% 0.102 314.8°
CIELAB (D50)
18.4, 26.7, -25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.9; 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 11.0 and 11.1 and 44.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.73:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.73:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#431c53
protanopia
#232353 · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#2b2b53 · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#333300 · ΔE00 44.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isObsidian Orchid at ΔE00 1.194: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Obsidian OrchidΔE00 1.194 · #3f1d50
- Galactic WonderΔE00 1.64 · #442255
- Queen’s DomainΔE00 2.409 · #472557
- Wonka PurpleΔE00 2.487 · #4a2559
- AcaiΔE00 3.526 · #48295b
- Deep PlumΔE00 3.879 · #4a2a59
- Purple DoorΔE00 3.978 · #331144
- Shani PurpleΔE00 4.056 · #4c1050
- Russian VioletΔE00 4.248 · #32174d
- Powerful VioletΔE00 4.537 · #372252
- Elegant Purple GownΔE00 4.559 · #552367
- ClairvoyantΔE00 4.6 · #480656
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.