Wonka Purple
#4a2559
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4a2559
RGB
74, 37, 89
OKLCh
33.9% 0.097 315.3°
CIELAB (D50)
21.8, 25.2, -24.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.8; 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 11.0 and 45.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a2559
protanopia
#2b2b59 · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#333359 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#3b3b00 · ΔE00 45.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueen’s Domain at ΔE00 0.786: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Queen’s DomainΔE00 0.786 · #472557
- Galactic WonderΔE00 1.433 · #442255
- AcaiΔE00 1.62 · #48295b
- Deep PlumΔE00 1.654 · #4a2a59
- Plunged Into DarknessΔE00 2.487 · #431c53
- Obsidian OrchidΔE00 2.823 · #3f1d50
- Scarlet GumΔE00 3.036 · #4a2d57
- Kuwanomi PurpleΔE00 3.049 · #55295b
- Elegant Purple GownΔE00 3.617 · #552367
- Royal CrownΔE00 3.86 · #4f325e
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 4.336 · #522f57
- Imperial PurpleΔE00 4.427 · #5b3167
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.