Magician’s Cloak

#784467

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

Hex

#784467

RGB

120, 68, 103

OKLCh

46.1% 0.086 340.4°

CIELAB (D50)

36.3, 26.8, -10.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.7; on black, Lc -16.4. 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 17.2 and 18.1 and 46.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

7.44:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.82:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#784467

protanopia

#4c4c67 · ΔE00 17.2

deuteranopia

#575766 · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#626200 · ΔE00 46.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScintillating Violet at ΔE00 1.732: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Scintillating VioletΔE00 1.732 · #764663
  • Purple DrabΔE00 1.817 · #754260
  • Madder MagentaΔE00 2.206 · #80496e
  • Old Fashioned PurpleΔE00 2.437 · #73486b
  • Grape KissΔE00 2.493 · #82476f
  • Fig ClusterΔE00 2.649 · #784a65
  • Vivacious VioletΔE00 2.785 · #804665
  • Burnt OrchidΔE00 2.844 · #743d68
  • Brocade VioletΔE00 2.846 · #7b4d6b
  • Wood VioletΔE00 2.919 · #78426f
  • Dirty PurpleΔE00 2.977 · #734a65
  • Mystique VioletΔE00 3.019 · #723d5b

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