Bane of Royalty
#871466
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#871466
RGB
135, 20, 102
OKLCh
42.7% 0.168 343.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.1, 51.6, -17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.3; on black, Lc -12.9. 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 24.1 and 23.1 and 57.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#871466
protanopia
#333366 · ΔE00 24.1
deuteranopia
#4e4e64 · ΔE00 23.1
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 57.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPossessed Purple at ΔE00 0.279: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Possessed PurpleΔE00 0.279 · #881166
- GrapestΔE00 1.354 · #880066
- Cardinal PinkΔE00 2.637 · #8c055e
- Xereus PurpleΔE00 2.932 · #7d0061
- 8 Bit EggplantΔE00 3.888 · #990066
- Persian Luxury PurpleΔE00 3.936 · #990077
- Haunted PurpleΔE00 3.989 · #991177
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 4.054 · #881177
- Purple CurseΔE00 4.096 · #771166
- Mirage of VioletsΔE00 4.12 · #7b1c6e
- Noble PlumΔE00 4.197 · #871f78
- Romantic VampireΔE00 4.274 · #991166
4 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.