Simply Purple
#715bb1
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#715bb1
RGB
113, 91, 177
OKLCh
53.3% 0.132 293.2°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 24.6, -43.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.2; on black, Lc -24.6. 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 5.5 and 5.3 and 9.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.48:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.83:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.48:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#715bb1
protanopia
#5e5eb1 · ΔE00 5.5
deuteranopia
#6262b1 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#67678b · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Marguerite at ΔE00 1.911: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blue MargueriteΔE00 1.911 · #6a5bb1
- Prophet VioletΔE00 2.211 · #6f58a6
- Sumire VioletΔE00 2.924 · #7058a3
- Genestealer PurpleΔE00 3.073 · #7761ab
- Fuchsia BlueΔE00 3.127 · #7a58c1
- Giant OnionΔE00 3.956 · #665d9e
- Ultra VioletΔE00 4.215 · #7366bd
- Royal LavenderΔE00 4.554 · #7851a9
- ScampiΔE00 4.621 · #6f63a0
- Ultrapurple MergeΔE00 4.643 · #654ea3
- Purple OpulenceΔE00 4.792 · #60569a
- RollickΔE00 5.101 · #6d5698
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.