Grape Fizz
#64435f
A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#64435f
RGB
100, 67, 95
OKLCh
43.0% 0.062 332.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.0, 18.4, -10.6
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 88.8; on black, Lc -13.4. 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 13.3 and 13.9 and 41.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#64435f
protanopia
#48485f · ΔE00 13.3
deuteranopia
#4e4e5e · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 41.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Plum at ΔE00 1.361: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Royal PlumΔE00 1.361 · #654161
- HortensiaΔE00 1.475 · #61435b
- Plum RichΔE00 2.064 · #64475e
- BunchberryΔE00 2.234 · #674961
- Pansy PetalΔE00 2.33 · #5f4561
- SultanaΔE00 2.367 · #674668
- Ripe MulberryΔE00 2.607 · #62465b
- Blackberry WineΔE00 2.679 · #5c3c55
- Wizard TimeΔE00 2.699 · #6d4660
- Mexican PurpleΔE00 2.898 · #5a3c55
- Mature GrapeΔE00 2.931 · #5f3f54
- Precious JewelsΔE00 2.978 · #613a57
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.