Sumptuous Purple
#604c81
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#604c81
RGB
96, 76, 129
OKLCh
46.0% 0.087 300.4°
CIELAB (D50)
36.2, 17.7, -27.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 85.5; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 6.2 and 6.0 and 23.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#604c81
protanopia
#4f4f81 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#525281 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#575752 · ΔE00 23.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Majesty at ΔE00 1.843: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Violet MajestyΔE00 1.843 · #644982
- Royal RobeΔE00 1.881 · #614a7b
- In the VinesΔE00 2.273 · #5c457b
- Imperial PalaceΔE00 2.405 · #604e7a
- Freshly PurpleizedΔE00 2.429 · #5c5083
- Gentian VioletΔE00 2.584 · #57487f
- ZimidarΔE00 2.759 · #6a5287
- Saffron CrocusΔE00 2.98 · #584c77
- Impulsive PurpleΔE00 3.215 · #624977
- Magenta VioletΔE00 3.261 · #6c5389
- Picasso LilyΔE00 3.278 · #634878
- When Red Met BlueΔE00 3.306 · #564375
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.