Midnight Aubergine
#853c69
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#853c69
RGB
133, 60, 105
OKLCh
46.7% 0.115 344.6°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, 36.1, -11.1
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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.2; on black, Lc -16.8. 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 20.3 and 20.8 and 50.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#853c69
protanopia
#494969 · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#595968 · ΔE00 20.8
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 50.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClub Mauve at ΔE00 2.411: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Club MauveΔE00 2.411 · #834370
- BoysenberryΔE00 2.94 · #873260
- Bonbon RedΔE00 2.958 · #8c4268
- Purple PerilΔE00 3.01 · #903f75
- Grape KissΔE00 3.171 · #82476f
- PleasureΔE00 3.224 · #80385c
- Beetiful MagentaΔE00 3.294 · #90306a
- Berry PatchΔE00 3.333 · #84395d
- Sister Loganberry FrostΔE00 3.41 · #863f76
- BruiseΔE00 3.436 · #7e4071
- Deep Commitment to PurpleΔE00 3.662 · #7d4071
- Powder RedΔE00 3.693 · #95396a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.