Purple Sultan
#853682
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#853682
RGB
133, 54, 130
OKLCh
47.1% 0.145 329.1°
CIELAB (D50)
36.4, 42.1, -26.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.0. 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 19.1 and 18.3 and 57.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#853682
protanopia
#454582 · ΔE00 19.1
deuteranopia
#575781 · ΔE00 18.3
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 57.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSparkling Grape at ΔE00 1.031: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sparkling GrapeΔE00 1.031 · #82387e
- Violet WebcapΔE00 1.878 · #833e82
- Veronica PurpleΔE00 2.796 · #7e3075
- DahliaΔE00 2.917 · #8b4189
- Purple ExcellencyΔE00 3.064 · #943589
- Violet VixenΔE00 3.089 · #883377
- HollyhockΔE00 3.231 · #913881
- Evil CurseΔE00 3.395 · #884488
- Warm PurpleΔE00 3.533 · #952e8f
- Purpurite RedΔE00 3.757 · #864480
- Flesh FlyΔE00 3.793 · #894585
- Dull VioletΔE00 4.016 · #803790
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.