Sunshone Plum
#886688
A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#886688
RGB
136, 102, 136
OKLCh
55.6% 0.066 326.4°
CIELAB (D50)
47.6, 18.6, -13.4
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 only 25% 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 73.8; on black, Lc -27.9. 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 12.6 and 13.0 and 46.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#886688
protanopia
#6b6b88 · ΔE00 12.6
deuteranopia
#717187 · ΔE00 13.0
tritanopia
#787800 · ΔE00 46.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrchid Orchestra at ΔE00 2.036: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Orchid OrchestraΔE00 2.036 · #876281
- BeautyΔE00 2.509 · #866b8d
- Poetry MauveΔE00 2.629 · #886891
- MauveineΔE00 2.706 · #8a6d8b
- Chinese VioletΔE00 2.74 · #92698f
- Dusty PurpleΔE00 3.047 · #825f87
- Dianthus MauveΔE00 3.047 · #8d6d89
- Blackberry JamΔE00 3.079 · #87657e
- RhinestoneΔE00 3.145 · #8e6c94
- MirabellaΔE00 3.309 · #886793
- Hashita PurpleΔE00 3.323 · #8d608c
- Trendy PinkΔE00 3.343 · #805d80
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.