Orb of Discord

#772299

A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#772299

RGB

119, 34, 153

OKLCh

44.3% 0.186 314.0°

CIELAB (D50)

32.2, 50.0, -47.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.1; on black, Lc -14.0. 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 15.7 and 16.0 and 61.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

8.49:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.47:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at8.49:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#772299

protanopia

#343499 · ΔE00 15.7

deuteranopia

#484898 · ΔE00 16.0

tritanopia

#595900 · ΔE00 61.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNoble Cause Purple at ΔE00 1.385: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.