Wineberry
#663366
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#663366
RGB
102, 51, 102
OKLCh
40.8% 0.102 327.3°
CIELAB (D50)
29.8, 29.4, -20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.4; on black, Lc -10.9. 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 15.0 and 15.0 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.42:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.42:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#663366
protanopia
#3b3b66 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#474765 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#515100 · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpulent Purple at ΔE00 1.389: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Opulent PurpleΔE00 1.389 · #673362
- PlumΔE00 1.56 · #66386a
- GloxiniaΔE00 1.735 · #693162
- Intense MauveΔE00 1.813 · #682d63
- SeanceΔE00 2.095 · #69326e
- CharismaΔE00 2.337 · #632a60
- Berry LightΔE00 2.57 · #673b66
- Wine TourΔE00 2.604 · #653b66
- GrapeΔE00 2.899 · #6c3461
- Palatinate PurpleΔE00 3.036 · #682860
- EminenceΔE00 3.114 · #6e3974
- ImperialΔE00 3.17 · #602f6b
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.