Lucid Dreams
#632f92
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#632f92
RGB
99, 47, 146
OKLCh
42.6% 0.157 304.7°
CIELAB (D50)
30.8, 38.3, -46.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.9; on black, Lc -12.4. 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 11.1 and 11.1 and 57.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.35:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#632f92
protanopia
#383892 · ΔE00 11.1
deuteranopia
#434391 · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#4e4e00 · ΔE00 57.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrue Purple at ΔE00 1.236: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- True PurpleΔE00 1.236 · #65318e
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 1.467 · #663399
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 1.756 · #652793
- Purple PatchΔE00 1.883 · #5c2e88
- Violet MagicianΔE00 1.884 · #64338b
- Purple HeartΔE00 2.183 · #69359c
- Night FeverΔE00 2.59 · #572e89
- Deep AmethystΔE00 2.943 · #5b3082
- PurplexΔE00 3.26 · #602287
- Wild VioletΔE00 3.313 · #63209b
- Sapphire SirenΔE00 3.561 · #662288
- Intergalactic SettlementΔE00 3.772 · #5b1e8b
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.