Purple Passion
#784674
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#784674
RGB
120, 70, 116
OKLCh
47.0% 0.094 329.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, 27.5, -17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.7; on black, Lc -17.3. 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 15.3 and 15.6 and 49.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.93:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#784674
protanopia
#4e4e74 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#585873 · ΔE00 15.6
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 49.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWood Violet at ΔE00 1.548: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wood VioletΔE00 1.548 · #78426f
- Sunset PurpleΔE00 1.709 · #724770
- Spring Lobster DyeΔE00 1.712 · #7a4171
- Magic MagentaΔE00 1.966 · #7f4774
- Deep Commitment to PurpleΔE00 2.397 · #7d4071
- BruiseΔE00 2.583 · #7e4071
- Visiona RedΔE00 2.728 · #83477d
- Old Fashioned PurpleΔE00 2.948 · #73486b
- Vibrant OrchidΔE00 3.03 · #804b81
- Thistle MauveΔE00 3.033 · #834d7c
- Phlox Flower VioletΔE00 3.089 · #7f4f78
- Burnt OrchidΔE00 3.234 · #743d68
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.