Pleasure
#80385c
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#80385c
RGB
128, 56, 92
OKLCh
44.9% 0.108 351.1°
CIELAB (D50)
34.6, 34.8, -5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.1; on black, Lc -15.0. 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 21.0 and 22.1 and 47.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#80385c
protanopia
#45455c · ΔE00 21.0
deuteranopia
#55555a · ΔE00 22.1
tritanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 47.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlfonso Olive at ΔE00 0.61: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Alfonso OliveΔE00 0.61 · #80365a
- Berry PatchΔE00 0.963 · #84395d
- Possessed PlumΔE00 2.258 · #773355
- BoysenberryΔE00 2.285 · #873260
- Passionate PlumΔE00 2.616 · #753a58
- Ancient Royal BannerΔE00 2.8 · #843f5b
- Rich Red VioletΔE00 3.071 · #7c3651
- Mulled PlumΔE00 3.081 · #763d57
- Midnight AubergineΔE00 3.224 · #853c69
- Bonbon RedΔE00 3.653 · #8c4268
- Mystique VioletΔE00 3.778 · #723d5b
- Pink HorrorΔE00 3.782 · #90305d
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.