Plum
#66386a
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#66386a
RGB
102, 56, 106
OKLCh
41.8% 0.097 324.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.0, 27.2, -20.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.4; on black, Lc -11.9. 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 13.9 and 13.9 and 48.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#66386a
protanopia
#3f3f6a · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#494969 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 48.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWineberry at ΔE00 1.56: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- WineberryΔE00 1.56 · #663366
- Wine TourΔE00 1.798 · #653b66
- MajestyΔE00 1.8 · #673e6e
- Berry LightΔE00 1.973 · #673b66
- SeanceΔE00 2.348 · #69326e
- EminenceΔE00 2.423 · #6e3974
- Opulent PurpleΔE00 2.492 · #673362
- HeartlessΔE00 2.567 · #623b70
- Purple SplendourΔE00 2.682 · #5e3b6a
- Purple OdysseyΔE00 2.99 · #643e65
- GloxiniaΔE00 3.038 · #693162
- ComtesseΔE00 3.114 · #6c3877
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.