HueComb

Fading Horizon

#442266

A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.

Hex

#442266

RGB

68, 34, 102

OKLCh

33.5% 0.116 303.8°

CIELAB (D50)

21.0, 27.5, -34.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.2; 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 8.6 and 8.6 and 42.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

12.60:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.67:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at12.60:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#442266

protanopia

#272766 · ΔE00 8.6

deuteranopia

#2f2f66 · ΔE00 8.6

tritanopia

#363614 · ΔE00 42.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChristalle at ΔE00 2.904: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.