Freefall
#565266
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
#565266
RGB
86, 82, 102
OKLCh
45.0% 0.033 294.2°
CIELAB (D50)
35.8, 5.1, -11.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 86.1; on black, Lc -15.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#565266
protanopia
#525266 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#535366 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#54545c · ΔE00 6.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMagic Spell at ΔE00 1.596: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Magic SpellΔE00 1.596 · #544f66
- Inky StormΔE00 1.596 · #535266
- IllusionistΔE00 2.159 · #574f64
- Ripe BerryΔE00 2.506 · #5c5666
- Academy PurpleΔE00 2.659 · #525367
- Legendary PurpleΔE00 2.695 · #4e4e63
- SalvationΔE00 3.042 · #514e5c
- ArraignΔE00 3.104 · #5c546e
- Mulled WineΔE00 3.144 · #524d5b
- Orchid GreyΔE00 3.155 · #5e5871
- House Stark GreyΔE00 3.23 · #4d495b
- Gobelin MauveΔE00 3.268 · #5e5a6a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.