Plum Highness
#885577
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#885577
RGB
136, 85, 119
OKLCh
51.8% 0.082 340.2°
CIELAB (D50)
42.9, 25.7, -10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.9; on black, Lc -22.9. 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 17.0 and 17.8 and 47.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.61:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#885577
protanopia
#5d5d77 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#676776 · ΔE00 17.8
tritanopia
#727200 · ΔE00 47.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueen’s Honour at ΔE00 1.365: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Queen’s HonourΔE00 1.365 · #8b5776
- Dusky PurpleΔE00 1.981 · #895b7b
- Purple DavenportΔE00 2.04 · #835177
- Indian SilkΔE00 2.07 · #8a5773
- Argyle PurpleΔE00 2.458 · #895c79
- Dynamic MagentaΔE00 2.52 · #8a547f
- Dull PurpleΔE00 2.791 · #84597e
- MagnificenceΔE00 2.909 · #7f556f
- Merlin’s CloakΔE00 3.155 · #89556e
- ImmortalityΔE00 3.232 · #945b7f
- Graphic GrapeΔE00 3.258 · #824e78
- Sugar PlumΔE00 3.26 · #914e75
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.