Majestic Eggplant
#443388
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#443388
RGB
68, 51, 136
OKLCh
39.0% 0.136 287.6°
CIELAB (D50)
27.2, 25.6, -45.9
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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.1; on black, Lc -9.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#443388
protanopia
#353588 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#393988 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#3c3c73 · ΔE00 5.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Gem at ΔE00 2.674: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Blue GemΔE00 2.674 · #4b3c8e
- Royal WisteriaΔE00 2.884 · #463699
- Nauseous BlueΔE00 2.925 · #483d8b
- Galactic PurpleΔE00 2.929 · #472e97
- Galactic CompassΔE00 3.288 · #48357b
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.346 · #412a7a
- Blue Magenta VioletΔE00 3.705 · #553592
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.982 · #502d86
- Ruthless EmpressΔE00 4.103 · #573894
- Sage VioletΔE00 4.152 · #413c7b
- WindsorΔE00 4.173 · #462c77
- Clematis BlueΔE00 4.419 · #3c3d8a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.