Voodoo
#443240
A magenta 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
#443240
RGB
68, 50, 64
OKLCh
34.3% 0.035 334.3°
CIELAB (D50)
23.3, 10.5, -5.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 97.1; 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 9.5 and 10.0 and 31.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.78:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#443240
protanopia
#343440 · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#383840 · ΔE00 10.0
tritanopia
#3c3c00 · ΔE00 31.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Onion at ΔE00 0.832: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red OnionΔE00 0.832 · #473442
- VincottoΔE00 1.809 · #483743
- Disappearing PurpleΔE00 2.865 · #3f313a
- BarossaΔE00 2.917 · #452e39
- Royal SilkΔE00 3.117 · #4b3841
- PrinceΔE00 3.261 · #4b384c
- Priceless PurpleΔE00 3.291 · #46373f
- Petunia PattyΔE00 3.405 · #4b3c4b
- WineshadeΔE00 3.456 · #433748
- LoulouΔE00 3.469 · #4c3347
- Rare WineΔE00 3.484 · #3b2736
- Funkie FridayΔE00 3.497 · #4a3c4a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.