Galactic Civilization
#442288
A violet that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#442288
RGB
68, 34, 136
OKLCh
36.4% 0.158 291.9°
CIELAB (D50)
23.4, 35.2, -52.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.7; 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 6.2 and 6.6 and 10.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.47:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.47:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#442288
protanopia
#272788 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#2f2f88 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#363661 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOccult at ΔE00 1.982: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- OccultΔE00 1.982 · #4b1e87
- Spanish VioletΔE00 2.76 · #4c2882
- Pitch VioletΔE00 3.014 · #4a148c
- Explorer of the GalaxiesΔE00 3.077 · #3a1f76
- KSU PurpleΔE00 3.078 · #512888
- Grim PurpleΔE00 3.177 · #441188
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.379 · #412a7a
- Eggplant TintΔE00 3.438 · #531b93
- Pixie PowderΔE00 3.481 · #391285
- Eine Kleine NachtmusikΔE00 3.652 · #552299
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.663 · #502d86
- Galactic PurpleΔE00 3.74 · #472e97
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.