Nymph’s Delight
#7b6c8e
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
#7b6c8e
RGB
123, 108, 142
OKLCh
55.8% 0.055 304.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, 11.4, -16.5
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 only 19% 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 73.3; on black, Lc -28.4. 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 6.2 and 6.3 and 25.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.38:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b6c8e
protanopia
#6e6e8e · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#71718e · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#747463 · ΔE00 25.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Silhouette at ΔE00 2.052: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Purple SilhouetteΔE00 2.052 · #776d90
- OrnateΔE00 2.176 · #806d95
- Provence VioletΔE00 2.406 · #827191
- Amethyst GemΔE00 2.411 · #776985
- Purple HazeΔE00 2.766 · #807396
- Grey PurpleΔE00 2.812 · #826d8c
- BureaucracyΔE00 2.912 · #746c8f
- Parisian VioletΔE00 3.01 · #787093
- Baroness MauveΔE00 3.061 · #847098
- BeetsΔE00 3.153 · #736a86
- Arabian SilkΔE00 3.328 · #786e97
- MatriarchΔE00 3.835 · #7e6884
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.