Nightly Walk
#544563
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#544563
RGB
84, 69, 99
OKLCh
41.8% 0.052 307.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 11.5, -15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 89.9; on black, Lc -12.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.6 and 6.8 and 28.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#544563
protanopia
#474763 · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#4a4a63 · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#4d4d36 · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoad Purple at ΔE00 1.638: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Woad PurpleΔE00 1.638 · #584769
- Roman PurpleΔE00 1.692 · #524765
- Royal IndigoΔE00 1.74 · #4e4260
- Proper PurpleΔE00 2.256 · #59476b
- Powerful MauveΔE00 2.309 · #4c3f5d
- PaparazziΔE00 2.366 · #5a4a64
- Purple People EaterΔE00 2.486 · #5b4763
- Petal PurpleΔE00 2.563 · #53465d
- Haunted CandelabraΔE00 2.654 · #57446a
- Bon VivantΔE00 2.895 · #5e496a
- Berry CharmΔE00 2.915 · #4f4763
- Conspiracy VelvetΔE00 2.929 · #57465d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.