Majestic Magic
#555570
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
#555570
RGB
85, 85, 112
OKLCh
46.0% 0.044 284.6°
CIELAB (D50)
37.0, 4.9, -15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 85.0; on black, Lc -17.0. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
7.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.92:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#555570
protanopia
#555570 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#555570 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#555570 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSombre Grey at ΔE00 0.657: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sombre GreyΔE00 0.657 · #555470
- The FangΔE00 1.278 · #585673
- Pango BlackΔE00 2.218 · #4e4f6a
- Agate VioletΔE00 2.241 · #5a5b74
- Deep OrchidΔE00 2.54 · #525476
- IntergalacticΔE00 2.55 · #4d516c
- Nightshade PurpleΔE00 2.6 · #535872
- Nightshadow BlueΔE00 2.62 · #555971
- Inky StormΔE00 2.871 · #535266
- Academy PurpleΔE00 2.877 · #525367
- IndependenceΔE00 2.94 · #4c516d
- When Worlds CollideΔE00 3.004 · #585c79
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.