Purple Velour
#581a57
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#581a57
RGB
88, 26, 87
OKLCh
34.3% 0.121 328.5°
CIELAB (D50)
21.9, 34.9, -22.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.4; 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 16.2 and 16.2 and 49.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#581a57
protanopia
#272757 · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#353556 · ΔE00 16.2
tritanopia
#414100 · ΔE00 49.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCosmic Explorer at ΔE00 1.712: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cosmic ExplorerΔE00 1.712 · #551155
- Grape PurpleΔE00 2.678 · #5d1451
- Shani PurpleΔE00 3.08 · #4c1050
- Blackest BerryΔE00 3.553 · #662266
- Christmas PurpleΔE00 3.602 · #4d084b
- Cloak and DaggerΔE00 3.744 · #550055
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 3.793 · #4e0550
- Kuwanomi PurpleΔE00 3.829 · #55295b
- Clear PlumΔE00 4.003 · #64005e
- CharismaΔE00 4.035 · #632a60
- Amygdala PurpleΔE00 4.297 · #69045f
- Alien PurpleΔE00 4.377 · #490648
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.