Purple Rain
#7442c8
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7442c8
RGB
116, 66, 200
OKLCh
51.2% 0.197 295.8°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, 44.0, -63.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.6; on black, Lc -21.3. 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 9.1 and 9.2 and 15.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7442c8
protanopia
#4a4ac8 · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#5454c8 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#5f5f80 · ΔE00 15.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHokkaido Lavender at ΔE00 2.975: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Hokkaido LavenderΔE00 2.975 · #7736d9
- Aconite PurpleΔE00 3.059 · #7249d6
- Dragonlord PurpleΔE00 3.694 · #6241c7
- Sagat PurpleΔE00 4.094 · #6a31ca
- Waiporoporo PurpleΔE00 4.229 · #654bc9
- Bluish PurpleΔE00 4.399 · #703be7
- Thick PurpleΔE00 4.587 · #8833dd
- Purple EmperorΔE00 4.591 · #6633bb
- BurpleΔE00 5.17 · #6832e3
- Purple SpotΔE00 5.383 · #652dc1
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 5.443 · #8a2be2
- Puissant PurpleΔE00 5.645 · #7722cc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.