Hokkaido Lavender
#7736d9
A violet that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7736d9
RGB
119, 54, 217
OKLCh
51.5% 0.229 295.2°
CIELAB (D50)
39.5, 53.7, -73.7
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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.5; 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 9.6 and 10.1 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7736d9
protanopia
#4141d9 · ΔE00 9.6
deuteranopia
#5050d9 · ΔE00 10.1
tritanopia
#5d5d89 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBluish Purple at ΔE00 2.827: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Bluish PurpleΔE00 2.827 · #703be7
- Purple RainΔE00 2.975 · #7442c8
- Sagat PurpleΔE00 3.162 · #6a31ca
- Thick PurpleΔE00 3.171 · #8833dd
- BurpleΔE00 3.207 · #6832e3
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 3.537 · #8a2be2
- Almost RoyalΔE00 3.672 · #6a2ded
- Purple ProtestΔE00 3.802 · #8822dd
- Puissant PurpleΔE00 4.045 · #7722cc
- Aconite PurpleΔE00 4.158 · #7249d6
- Yíng Guāng Sè PurpleΔE00 4.351 · #632de9
- Voluptuous VioletΔE00 4.463 · #7711dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.