Muted Purple
#805b87
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#805b87
RGB
128, 91, 135
OKLCh
52.6% 0.080 321.0°
CIELAB (D50)
43.9, 21.7, -18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 77.8; on black, Lc -24.0. 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 12.1 and 12.3 and 49.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.76:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#805b87
protanopia
#606087 · ΔE00 12.1
deuteranopia
#686886 · ΔE00 12.3
tritanopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 49.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrushed Grape at ΔE00 0.962: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Crushed GrapeΔE00 0.962 · #835a88
- Purple MysteryΔE00 1.103 · #815989
- ChampionΔE00 1.465 · #7b5986
- Dusty PurpleΔE00 1.621 · #825f87
- Purple FluoriteΔE00 1.71 · #85598a
- Swiss LilacΔE00 2.11 · #86608e
- Plum PowerΔE00 2.158 · #7e5e8d
- Pomp and PowerΔE00 2.228 · #87608e
- Candy VioletΔE00 2.292 · #895d8b
- Concord GrapeΔE00 2.295 · #855983
- Ancient Murasaki PurpleΔE00 2.361 · #895b8a
- Trendy PinkΔE00 2.638 · #805d80
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.