Grape Kiss

#82476f

A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#82476f

RGB

130, 71, 111

OKLCh

48.3% 0.097 340.4°

CIELAB (D50)

38.6, 30.0, -11.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.3; on black, Lc -18.7. 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 18.0 and 18.8 and 48.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

6.82:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.08:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at6.82:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#82476f

protanopia

#50506f · ΔE00 18.0

deuteranopia

#5d5d6e · ΔE00 18.8

tritanopia

#696900 · ΔE00 48.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMadder Magenta at ΔE00 0.903: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.