Pleasant Purple
#8833aa
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8833aa
RGB
136, 51, 170
OKLCh
49.6% 0.189 314.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.4, 50.2, -48.0
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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.5; on black, Lc -19.4. 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 16.6 and 16.5 and 64.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.10:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8833aa
protanopia
#4444aa · ΔE00 16.6
deuteranopia
#5757a9 · ΔE00 16.5
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 64.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMinesweeper’s Purple at ΔE00 3.036: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Minesweeper’s PurpleΔE00 3.036 · #8f1cae
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 3.71 · #8822bb
- Skeletor’s CapeΔE00 3.736 · #773399
- Cadmium VioletΔE00 3.84 · #7f3e98
- Purple PristineΔE00 3.894 · #7733aa
- Shredder LavenderΔE00 3.905 · #7737aa
- ShinerΔE00 3.985 · #773ca7
- Leviathan PurpleΔE00 4.041 · #8b2a98
- Passionate PurpleΔE00 4.147 · #882299
- Nebula OutpostΔE00 4.273 · #922b9c
- Druchii VioletΔE00 4.298 · #842994
- Purple PleasuresΔE00 4.396 · #81459e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.