Persian Luxury Purple
#990077
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#990077
RGB
153, 0, 119
OKLCh
45.9% 0.198 341.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.4, 60.5, -22.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.6. 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 25.9 and 24.7 and 62.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.62:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#990077
protanopia
#353577 · ΔE00 25.9
deuteranopia
#565675 · ΔE00 24.7
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 62.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHaunted Purple at ΔE00 0.957: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Haunted PurpleΔE00 0.957 · #991177
- Vanishing NightΔE00 3.642 · #990088
- Royal PurplenessΔE00 3.682 · #881177
- Possessed PurpleΔE00 3.814 · #881166
- GrapestΔE00 3.884 · #880066
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 3.936 · #871466
- Noble PlumΔE00 3.937 · #871f78
- 8 Bit EggplantΔE00 4.021 · #990066
- Katy BerryΔE00 4.077 · #aa0077
- Blissful BerryΔE00 4.282 · #aa1188
- Red VioletΔE00 4.319 · #9e0168
- Romantic VampireΔE00 4.495 · #991166
3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.