Sapphire Siren
#662288
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#662288
RGB
102, 34, 136
OKLCh
40.7% 0.164 311.7°
CIELAB (D50)
28.4, 43.1, -43.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.8; on black, Lc -10.6. 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 13.8 and 14.0 and 57.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.15:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#662288
protanopia
#303088 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#3f3f87 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#4d4d00 · ΔE00 57.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurplex at ΔE00 1.35: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PurplexΔE00 1.35 · #602287
- ExtravioletΔE00 2.377 · #661188
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 2.451 · #652793
- Intergalactic SettlementΔE00 3.04 · #5b1e8b
- True PurpleΔE00 3.353 · #65318e
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 3.561 · #632f92
- Purple PatchΔE00 3.586 · #5c2e88
- Chinese PurpleΔE00 3.643 · #720b98
- Orb of DiscordΔE00 3.677 · #772299
- Berry BlackmailΔE00 3.685 · #662277
- Peaceful PurpleΔE00 3.723 · #660088
- Violet MagicianΔE00 3.745 · #64338b
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.