Long Passionate Night
#5b365e
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#5b365e
RGB
91, 54, 94
OKLCh
39.4% 0.080 324.3°
CIELAB (D50)
28.5, 22.4, -17.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.6; on black, Lc -9.8. 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 12.6 and 13.2 and 44.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.13:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5b365e
protanopia
#3c3c5e · ΔE00 12.6
deuteranopia
#43435d · ΔE00 13.2
tritanopia
#4b4b00 · ΔE00 44.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPassion Razz at ΔE00 0.675: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Passion RazzΔE00 0.675 · #59355e
- Purpurite VioletΔE00 1.608 · #57385e
- Purple WineberryΔE00 1.827 · #5a395b
- Spanish PlumΔE00 2.294 · #5c3357
- Damson MauveΔE00 2.319 · #583563
- Japanese VioletΔE00 2.408 · #5b3256
- Purple ProseΔE00 2.431 · #543254
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 2.5 · #522f57
- Wine TourΔE00 2.505 · #653b66
- Purple OdysseyΔE00 2.749 · #643e65
- Berry LightΔE00 2.918 · #673b66
- Purple SplendourΔE00 3.028 · #5e3b6a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.