Violet Vixen
#883377
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#883377
RGB
136, 51, 119
OKLCh
46.6% 0.142 336.2°
CIELAB (D50)
35.9, 43.0, -20.8
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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 20.8 and 20.0 and 56.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#883377
protanopia
#444477 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#575776 · ΔE00 20.0
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 56.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVeronica Purple at ΔE00 2.469: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Veronica PurpleΔE00 2.469 · #7e3075
- HollyhockΔE00 2.481 · #913881
- Sparkling GrapeΔE00 2.75 · #82387e
- Magenta RedΔE00 2.914 · #913977
- Sister Loganberry FrostΔE00 2.918 · #863f76
- Purple SultanΔE00 3.089 · #853682
- Purple WineΔE00 3.539 · #97397f
- Noble PlumΔE00 3.694 · #871f78
- Grape JuiceΔE00 3.715 · #772f6c
- Violet WebcapΔE00 3.757 · #833e82
- Purple ExcellencyΔE00 3.76 · #943589
- BruiseΔE00 4.001 · #7e4071
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.