Vintage
#847592
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
#847592
RGB
132, 117, 146
OKLCh
58.6% 0.047 308.3°
CIELAB (D50)
51.4, 10.4, -13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 69.4; on black, Lc -32.3. 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 6.6 and 6.8 and 27.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.25:1 — large text only
Black text
4.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#80718e 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
#847592
protanopia
#777792 · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#7a7a92 · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#7d7d64 · ΔE00 27.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isProvence Violet at ΔE00 1.739: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Provence VioletΔE00 1.739 · #827191
- RelicΔE00 2.367 · #88789b
- Purple HazeΔE00 2.458 · #807396
- Black Diamond AppleΔE00 2.491 · #8a779a
- Batik LilacΔE00 2.52 · #7e738b
- Garden VioletsΔE00 2.599 · #827799
- Grape HarvestΔE00 2.641 · #807697
- Queen of ShebaΔE00 2.813 · #817699
- KinlockΔE00 2.873 · #7f7793
- Greyish PurpleΔE00 2.945 · #887191
- Hyacinth DreamΔE00 3.076 · #807388
- Self PoweredΔE00 3.146 · #8c7591
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.