Stormy Horizon
#777799
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#777799
RGB
119, 119, 153
OKLCh
58.2% 0.052 284.7°
CIELAB (D50)
51.0, 5.8, -18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.8; on black, Lc -31.9. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
4.30:1 — large text only
Black text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747496 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#777799
protanopia
#777799 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#777799 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#777799 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBenimidori Purple at ΔE00 0.693: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Benimidori PurpleΔE00 0.693 · #78779b
- Kimono VioletΔE00 1.115 · #75769b
- Iris EyesΔE00 1.35 · #767694
- Blue DoveΔE00 1.733 · #76799e
- Royal FortuneΔE00 2.659 · #747792
- RhythmΔE00 2.84 · #767194
- Bossa Nova BlueΔE00 2.962 · #767c9e
- Silk Crepe MauveΔE00 3.033 · #6e7196
- Inky VioletΔE00 3.221 · #747b9f
- Grape JamΔE00 3.376 · #7f779a
- Lavender VioletΔE00 3.515 · #767ba5
- Stormy MauveΔE00 3.656 · #71738c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.