Bruise
#7e4071
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7e4071
RGB
126, 64, 113
OKLCh
46.7% 0.108 335.6°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, 32.5, -16.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.2; on black, Lc -16.8. 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 17.7 and 17.9 and 51.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.86:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e4071
protanopia
#4a4a71 · ΔE00 17.7
deuteranopia
#585870 · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 51.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Commitment to Purple at ΔE00 0.265: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Commitment to PurpleΔE00 0.265 · #7d4071
- Spring Lobster DyeΔE00 1.078 · #7a4171
- Wood VioletΔE00 1.57 · #78426f
- Sister Loganberry FrostΔE00 1.853 · #863f76
- Club MauveΔE00 1.897 · #834370
- Magic MagentaΔE00 1.958 · #7f4774
- Burnt OrchidΔE00 2.501 · #743d68
- Purple PassionΔE00 2.583 · #784674
- Visiona RedΔE00 2.912 · #83477d
- Grape KissΔE00 2.937 · #82476f
- Ayame IrisΔE00 3.217 · #763568
- Purpurite RedΔE00 3.387 · #864480
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.