Eminence
#6e3974
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6e3974
RGB
110, 57, 116
OKLCh
43.5% 0.112 323.4°
CIELAB (D50)
32.8, 31.1, -24.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 88.6; on black, Lc -13.6. 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 14.8 and 14.4 and 51.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e3974
protanopia
#424274 · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#4d4d73 · ΔE00 14.4
tritanopia
#585800 · ΔE00 51.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isComtesse at ΔE00 1.298: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ComtesseΔE00 1.298 · #6c3877
- SeanceΔE00 2.022 · #69326e
- PlumΔE00 2.423 · #66386a
- MajestyΔE00 2.802 · #673e6e
- Purple MagicΔE00 3.031 · #653475
- WineberryΔE00 3.114 · #663366
- HeartlessΔE00 3.15 · #623b70
- Galactic GrapevineΔE00 3.343 · #6b327b
- Maximum PurpleΔE00 3.417 · #733380
- ImperialΔE00 3.791 · #602f6b
- Berry LightΔE00 3.845 · #673b66
- Nightly VioletΔE00 3.851 · #784384
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.