Berry Jam
#655883
A violet 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
#655883
RGB
101, 88, 131
OKLCh
49.0% 0.069 297.7°
CIELAB (D50)
40.0, 12.8, -22.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 26% 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 81.8; on black, Lc -20.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 14.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#655883
protanopia
#5a5a83 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#5c5c83 · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#5f5f65 · ΔE00 14.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVigorous Violet at ΔE00 0.727: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vigorous VioletΔE00 0.727 · #645681
- PsychicΔE00 1.391 · #625981
- Purple SkyΔE00 1.477 · #62547e
- Concord JamΔE00 1.601 · #695a82
- Parma MauveΔE00 1.714 · #5f5680
- KimberlyΔE00 1.762 · #695d87
- Purple ValleyΔE00 1.922 · #665b80
- Berry SyrupΔE00 2.293 · #64537c
- Virtual VioletΔE00 2.326 · #66537f
- Purple BalloonΔE00 2.346 · #625b87
- IdolΔE00 2.443 · #645a8b
- Butterfly BushΔE00 2.546 · #68578c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.