Royal Purpleness
#881177
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#881177
RGB
136, 17, 119
OKLCh
43.6% 0.181 335.4°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 54.2, -27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 94% 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 88.4; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 22.9 and 22.3 and 60.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.39:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#881177
protanopia
#333377 · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#4e4e75 · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 60.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNoble Plum at ΔE00 1.424: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Noble PlumΔE00 1.424 · #871f78
- PatriarchΔE00 2.285 · #800070
- Mirage of VioletsΔE00 2.625 · #7b1c6e
- Mardi GrasΔE00 3.378 · #880085
- Hello Darkness My Old FriendΔE00 3.378 · #802280
- Philippine VioletΔE00 3.528 · #81007f
- Vanishing NightΔE00 3.631 · #990088
- Violaceous GretiΔE00 3.679 · #881188
- Persian Luxury PurpleΔE00 3.682 · #990077
- Purple CurseΔE00 3.831 · #771166
- GrapestΔE00 3.856 · #880066
- PurpleΔE00 3.901 · #800080
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.