Freshly Purpleized
#5c5083
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5c5083
RGB
92, 80, 131
OKLCh
46.5% 0.082 293.8°
CIELAB (D50)
36.9, 14.3, -27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 84.8; on black, Lc -17.2. 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 9.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.93:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c5083
protanopia
#515183 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#545483 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#56566b · ΔE00 9.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWool Violet at ΔE00 1.744: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wool VioletΔE00 1.744 · #5e5587
- Bright EggplantΔE00 1.892 · #5a4e88
- Mountain IrisΔE00 2.397 · #5c5687
- Fine PurpleΔE00 2.405 · #5e548d
- Sumptuous PurpleΔE00 2.429 · #604c81
- Gentian VioletΔE00 2.636 · #57487f
- Saffron CrocusΔE00 2.766 · #584c77
- Parma MauveΔE00 2.852 · #5f5680
- Red CabbageΔE00 2.862 · #534a77
- Fully PurpleΔE00 2.929 · #514c7e
- Aurora SplendourΔE00 3.027 · #595682
- VictoriaΔE00 3.034 · #564985
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.