Purple Haze
#807396
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
#807396
RGB
128, 115, 150
OKLCh
58.0% 0.055 301.7°
CIELAB (D50)
50.6, 10.7, -17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 70.2; on black, Lc -31.4. 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 5.3 and 5.4 and 20.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.37:1 — large text only
Black text
4.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7194 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#807396
protanopia
#757596 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#777796 · ΔE00 5.4
tritanopia
#7a7a73 · ΔE00 20.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueen of Sheba at ΔE00 1.266: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Queen of ShebaΔE00 1.266 · #817699
- Grape HarvestΔE00 1.485 · #807697
- Voxatron PurpleΔE00 1.56 · #83769c
- Garden VioletsΔE00 1.569 · #827799
- DaybreakΔE00 1.584 · #7e7597
- Provence VioletΔE00 2.074 · #827191
- Grape JamΔE00 2.27 · #7f779a
- VintageΔE00 2.458 · #847592
- RelicΔE00 2.489 · #88789b
- Baroness MauveΔE00 2.535 · #847098
- Parisian VioletΔE00 2.561 · #787093
- Nymph’s DelightΔE00 2.766 · #7b6c8e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.