Wizard’s Potion
#5d6098
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5d6098
RGB
93, 96, 152
OKLCh
51.1% 0.088 280.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.3, 9.9, -31.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 79.2; on black, Lc -22.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.59:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5d6098
protanopia
#606098 · ΔE00 0.9
deuteranopia
#5f5f98 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#5f5f9d · ΔE00 1.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Storm at ΔE00 1.253: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Violet StormΔE00 1.253 · #5c619d
- Persian PlushΔE00 1.919 · #575b93
- Iris BloomΔE00 2.321 · #5b649e
- Midnight SeaΔE00 2.398 · #565b8d
- Berry MixΔE00 2.446 · #555a90
- Royal MarquisΔE00 2.499 · #545e97
- Blue IrisΔE00 2.598 · #6264a6
- Dark HorizonΔE00 2.927 · #666699
- Corsican BlueΔE00 3.009 · #646093
- Karmic GrapeΔE00 3.025 · #545f8a
- Giant OnionΔE00 3.039 · #665d9e
- BreathtakingΔE00 3.082 · #536193
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.