Queens of the Dead
#652793
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#652793
RGB
101, 39, 147
OKLCh
41.9% 0.169 306.6°
CIELAB (D50)
29.7, 42.7, -48.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.6; on black, Lc -11.7. 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 12.2 and 12.4 and 58.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.26:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#652793
protanopia
#333393 · ΔE00 12.2
deuteranopia
#414192 · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#4d4d00 · ΔE00 58.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLucid Dreams at ΔE00 1.756: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 1.756 · #632f92
- Wild VioletΔE00 2.074 · #63209b
- PurplexΔE00 2.228 · #602287
- True PurpleΔE00 2.398 · #65318e
- Sapphire SirenΔE00 2.451 · #662288
- Intergalactic SettlementΔE00 2.656 · #5b1e8b
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 2.772 · #663399
- Purple PatchΔE00 2.772 · #5c2e88
- Violet MagicianΔE00 3.12 · #64338b
- Purple HeartΔE00 3.345 · #69359c
- Banafš VioletΔE00 3.375 · #5a1991
- Kalish VioletΔE00 3.405 · #552288
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.