Cloak and Dagger
#550055
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#550055
RGB
85, 0, 85
OKLCh
31.5% 0.145 328.4°
CIELAB (D50)
18.2, 42.0, -27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.9; 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 17.2 and 17.6 and 51.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#550055
protanopia
#1a1a55 · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#2d2d54 · ΔE00 17.6
tritanopia
#3c3c00 · ΔE00 51.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeaten Purple at ΔE00 1.554: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 1.554 · #4e0550
- Cosmic ExplorerΔE00 2.103 · #551155
- Christmas PurpleΔE00 2.483 · #4d084b
- Shani PurpleΔE00 2.775 · #4c1050
- Clear PlumΔE00 3.068 · #64005e
- Alien PurpleΔE00 3.078 · #490648
- ClairvoyantΔE00 3.578 · #480656
- Purple VelourΔE00 3.744 · #581a57
- Purple DreamerΔE00 3.784 · #660066
- JacartaΔE00 3.901 · #440044
- God of NightsΔE00 4.118 · #550066
- Divine PurpleΔE00 4.136 · #69005f
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.