Purple Heart
#69359c
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#69359c
RGB
105, 53, 156
OKLCh
44.9% 0.162 303.7°
CIELAB (D50)
33.4, 38.8, -47.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.5; on black, Lc -14.6. 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 11.0 and 11.0 and 53.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.11:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.11:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#69359c
protanopia
#3e3e9c · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#49499b · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#545420 · ΔE00 53.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRebecca Purple at ΔE00 0.796: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 0.796 · #663399
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 2.183 · #632f92
- Poppy PompadourΔE00 2.558 · #6b3fa0
- True PurpleΔE00 2.573 · #65318e
- Violet MagicianΔE00 3.015 · #64338b
- Purple PristineΔE00 3.105 · #7733aa
- Shredder LavenderΔE00 3.143 · #7737aa
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 3.345 · #652793
- ShinerΔE00 3.385 · #773ca7
- Sweet FlagΔE00 3.419 · #674196
- Skeletor’s CapeΔE00 3.731 · #773399
- Purple PatchΔE00 3.877 · #5c2e88
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.