Dr Who
#78587d
A magenta 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
#78587d
RGB
120, 88, 125
OKLCh
50.7% 0.069 321.9°
CIELAB (D50)
41.9, 18.8, -15.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 80.0; on black, Lc -21.8. 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 11.6 and 12.0 and 46.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.49:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#78587d
protanopia
#5c5c7d · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#63637c · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#696900 · ΔE00 46.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpulent Ostrich at ΔE00 1.66: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Opulent OstrichΔE00 1.66 · #775577
- BirthstoneΔE00 1.663 · #79547a
- ChampionΔE00 2.407 · #7b5986
- TrixterΔE00 2.427 · #705676
- Trendy PinkΔE00 2.484 · #805d80
- Muted PurpleΔE00 2.668 · #805b87
- Gala BallΔE00 2.821 · #785d7a
- Gladiola VioletΔE00 3.078 · #6e5178
- Dusty PurpleΔE00 3.134 · #825f87
- Mystical PurpleΔE00 3.191 · #745d83
- Patrician PurpleΔE00 3.21 · #72527f
- Crushed GrapeΔE00 3.325 · #835a88
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.