Purple Protégé
#593569
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#593569
RGB
89, 53, 105
OKLCh
39.5% 0.094 314.7°
CIELAB (D50)
28.5, 24.1, -24.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.6; on black, Lc -9.9. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.9 and 10.8 and 47.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#593569
protanopia
#3a3a69 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#424268 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#494900 · ΔE00 47.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isImperial Purple at ΔE00 1.56: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Imperial PurpleΔE00 1.56 · #5b3167
- Lounge VioletΔE00 1.673 · #5e336d
- Damson MauveΔE00 1.676 · #583563
- Honey FlowerΔE00 2.09 · #5c3c6d
- Purple SplendourΔE00 2.205 · #5e3b6a
- HeartlessΔE00 2.38 · #623b70
- Royal CrownΔE00 2.814 · #4f325e
- ImperialΔE00 2.826 · #602f6b
- PetuniaΔE00 3.321 · #4d3466
- Passion RazzΔE00 3.4 · #59355e
- Purple MagicΔE00 3.413 · #653475
- Kikyō PurpleΔE00 3.431 · #5d3f6a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.