Majesty
#673e6e
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#673e6e
RGB
103, 62, 110
OKLCh
43.2% 0.091 321.6°
CIELAB (D50)
32.7, 24.8, -20.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.9; on black, Lc -13.3. 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 12.8 and 12.8 and 48.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#673e6e
protanopia
#44446e · ΔE00 12.8
deuteranopia
#4d4d6d · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 48.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum at ΔE00 1.8: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PlumΔE00 1.8 · #66386a
- Magenta Red LipsΔE00 1.951 · #62416d
- Wine TourΔE00 1.994 · #653b66
- HeartlessΔE00 2.142 · #623b70
- Purple SplendourΔE00 2.244 · #5e3b6a
- Grape PopsicleΔE00 2.268 · #60406d
- Berry LightΔE00 2.278 · #673b66
- Purple OdysseyΔE00 2.521 · #643e65
- EminenceΔE00 2.802 · #6e3974
- Kikyō PurpleΔE00 2.863 · #5d3f6a
- Honey FlowerΔE00 3.162 · #5c3c6d
- WineberryΔE00 3.332 · #663366
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.