Galactic Grapevine
#6b327b
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6b327b
RGB
107, 50, 123
OKLCh
42.5% 0.130 318.4°
CIELAB (D50)
31.3, 34.9, -31.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.9; on black, Lc -12.4. 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 14.5 and 14.1 and 54.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b327b
protanopia
#3c3c7b · ΔE00 14.5
deuteranopia
#48487a · ΔE00 14.1
tritanopia
#545400 · ΔE00 54.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Magic at ΔE00 1.713: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple MagicΔE00 1.713 · #653475
- Maximum PurpleΔE00 1.742 · #733380
- ComtesseΔE00 2.208 · #6c3877
- SeanceΔE00 3.137 · #69326e
- EminenceΔE00 3.343 · #6e3974
- ImperialΔE00 3.385 · #602f6b
- Lounge VioletΔE00 3.546 · #5e336d
- Dark PansyΔE00 3.603 · #653d7c
- Berry BlackmailΔE00 3.621 · #662277
- Amaranth PurpleΔE00 3.923 · #723f89
- Tillandsia PurpleΔE00 4.103 · #60397f
- Perkin MauveΔE00 4.125 · #733c8e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.