Fuchsia Nebula
#7722aa
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7722aa
RGB
119, 34, 170
OKLCh
45.6% 0.202 308.5°
CIELAB (D50)
33.3, 52.7, -56.3
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 87% 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 86.9; on black, Lc -15.2. 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 14.2 and 14.7 and 63.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7722aa
protanopia
#3434aa · ΔE00 14.2
deuteranopia
#4848a9 · ΔE00 14.7
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 63.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Pristine at ΔE00 2.881: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Purple PristineΔE00 2.881 · #7733aa
- Orb of DiscordΔE00 3.035 · #772299
- Shade of VioletΔE00 3.31 · #8601af
- Noble Cause PurpleΔE00 3.486 · #7e1e9c
- Violet PoisonΔE00 3.606 · #8601bf
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 3.615 · #8822bb
- Shredder LavenderΔE00 3.709 · #7737aa
- Chinese PurpleΔE00 3.995 · #720b98
- Wild VioletΔE00 4.054 · #63209b
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 4.206 · #652793
- Skeletor’s CapeΔE00 4.235 · #773399
- Indiviolet SunsetΔE00 4.292 · #6611aa
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.