Grapest
#880066
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#880066
RGB
136, 0, 102
OKLCh
42.0% 0.180 343.0°
CIELAB (D50)
30.1, 55.2, -18.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.5; on black, Lc -12.8. 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 24.8 and 23.8 and 58.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#880066
protanopia
#2e2e66 · ΔE00 24.8
deuteranopia
#4c4c64 · ΔE00 23.8
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 58.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPossessed Purple at ΔE00 1.163: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Possessed PurpleΔE00 1.163 · #881166
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 1.354 · #871466
- Xereus PurpleΔE00 2.251 · #7d0061
- Cardinal PinkΔE00 2.889 · #8c055e
- Purple CurseΔE00 3.827 · #771166
- PatriarchΔE00 3.837 · #800070
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 3.856 · #881177
- Persian Luxury PurpleΔE00 3.884 · #990077
- 8 Bit EggplantΔE00 4.173 · #990066
- Mirage of VioletsΔE00 4.209 · #7b1c6e
- Haunted PurpleΔE00 4.246 · #991177
- Noble PlumΔE00 4.447 · #871f78
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.