Elegant Purple Gown
#552367
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#552367
RGB
85, 35, 103
OKLCh
36.0% 0.121 316.0°
CIELAB (D50)
23.8, 32.3, -30.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.0; 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 12.9 and 12.7 and 50.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.82:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#552367
protanopia
#2c2c67 · ΔE00 12.9
deuteranopia
#373766 · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#414100 · ΔE00 50.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolethargic at ΔE00 1.735: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ViolethargicΔE00 1.735 · #5a226f
- Purple SeductionΔE00 2.961 · #522a6f
- Wonka PurpleΔE00 3.617 · #4a2559
- ImperialΔE00 3.808 · #602f6b
- Berry BlackmailΔE00 3.959 · #662277
- Imperial PurpleΔE00 4.166 · #5b3167
- Kuwanomi PurpleΔE00 4.169 · #55295b
- Queen’s DomainΔE00 4.294 · #472557
- Lounge VioletΔE00 4.336 · #5e336d
- AcaiΔE00 4.417 · #48295b
- Galactic WonderΔE00 4.551 · #442255
- Plunged Into DarknessΔE00 4.559 · #431c53
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.