Purple Ink
#9a2ca0
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a2ca0
RGB
154, 44, 160
OKLCh
50.8% 0.196 325.7°
CIELAB (D50)
39.8, 55.9, -39.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.1; on black, Lc -20.8. 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 21.3 and 20.8 and 65.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.48:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.24:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.48:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a2ca0
protanopia
#4545a0 · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#5e5e9f · ΔE00 20.8
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 65.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNebula Outpost at ΔE00 1.688: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Nebula OutpostΔE00 1.688 · #922b9c
- Purple Tone InkΔE00 1.7 · #a22da4
- Acai JuiceΔE00 2.866 · #942193
- Ultra Violet LentzΔE00 2.945 · #aa22aa
- MagentleΔE00 3.089 · #aa11aa
- Violet EggplantΔE00 3.108 · #991199
- Warm PurpleΔE00 3.14 · #952e8f
- Leviathan PurpleΔE00 3.16 · #8b2a98
- Pink SpyroΔE00 3.164 · #a328b3
- Purple PotionΔE00 3.398 · #aa00aa
- Barney PurpleΔE00 3.576 · #a00498
- ShiffurpleΔE00 4.217 · #9900aa
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.