HueComb

Lavish Spending

#8469bc

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

Hex

#8469bc

RGB

132, 105, 188

OKLCh

58.3% 0.126 297.3°

CIELAB (D50)

49.9, 24.8, -40.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.7; on black, Lc -31.0. 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 7.0 and 6.6 and 16.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.44:1 — large text only

Black text

4.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8368bb is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#8469bc

protanopia

#6c6cbc · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#7272bc · ΔE00 6.6

tritanopia

#777785 · ΔE00 16.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMiddle Blue Purple at ΔE00 3.294: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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