Ruthless Empress
#573894
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#573894
RGB
87, 56, 148
OKLCh
42.7% 0.145 295.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.2, 30.7, -46.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.6; on black, Lc -12.6. 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 7.0 and 6.9 and 13.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#573894
protanopia
#3c3c94 · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#434394 · ΔE00 6.9
tritanopia
#494964 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Magenta Violet at ΔE00 0.852: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue Magenta VioletΔE00 0.852 · #553592
- Daisy BushΔE00 2.217 · #5b3e90
- Blue GemΔE00 3.37 · #4b3c8e
- Night FeverΔE00 3.38 · #572e89
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.51 · #502d86
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 3.806 · #663399
- RoyaltyΔE00 3.978 · #5930a9
- Majestic EggplantΔE00 4.103 · #443388
- Purple HeartΔE00 4.172 · #69359c
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 4.173 · #632f92
- Purple PatchΔE00 4.218 · #5c2e88
- Galactic PurpleΔE00 4.28 · #472e97
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.