Grapes of Italy
#714a8b
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#714a8b
RGB
113, 74, 139
OKLCh
48.0% 0.109 310.5°
CIELAB (D50)
38.1, 26.6, -30.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.6; on black, Lc -18.4. 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 10.9 and 10.4 and 53.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.05:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#714a8b
protanopia
#50508b · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#58588a · ΔE00 10.4
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 53.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Sapphire at ΔE00 1.023: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple SapphireΔE00 1.023 · #754b8f
- Plum JamΔE00 1.947 · #704783
- Parfait d’AmourΔE00 2.633 · #734f96
- Ninja PrincessΔE00 2.809 · #75528b
- RegalityΔE00 2.958 · #664480
- Lords of the NightΔE00 3.108 · #664488
- AffairΔE00 3.217 · #745085
- Violet MajestyΔE00 3.286 · #644982
- Pure MauveΔE00 3.294 · #6f5390
- Amaranth PurpleΔE00 3.295 · #723f89
- Pageantry PurpleΔE00 3.305 · #68447c
- JuneberryΔE00 3.409 · #775496
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.