Wild Violet
#63209b
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#63209b
RGB
99, 32, 155
OKLCh
41.6% 0.185 303.8°
CIELAB (D50)
28.9, 46.6, -54.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.9; on black, Lc -11.4. 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 11.5 and 12.1 and 59.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.21:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#63209b
protanopia
#2e2e9b · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#3d3d9a · ΔE00 12.1
tritanopia
#4a4a00 · ΔE00 59.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueens of the Dead at ΔE00 2.074: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 2.074 · #652793
- Banafš VioletΔE00 2.332 · #5a1991
- Intergalactic SettlementΔE00 2.64 · #5b1e8b
- Indiviolet SunsetΔE00 2.659 · #6611aa
- Eine Kleine NachtmusikΔE00 2.94 · #552299
- American VioletΔE00 3.19 · #551b8c
- Eggplant TintΔE00 3.257 · #531b93
- Indigo PurpleΔE00 3.262 · #660099
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 3.313 · #632f92
- Kalish VioletΔE00 3.446 · #552288
- PurplexΔE00 3.452 · #602287
- Amarklor VioletΔE00 3.559 · #551199
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.