Grape Riot
#9b4682
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b4682
RGB
155, 70, 130
OKLCh
52.4% 0.135 340.1°
CIELAB (D50)
42.8, 41.7, -16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. 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 21.4 and 20.7 and 56.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.59:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b4682
protanopia
#555582 · ΔE00 21.4
deuteranopia
#686880 · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 56.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Passion at ΔE00 1.617: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plum PassionΔE00 1.617 · #9b4b80
- La la LavenderΔE00 2.131 · #a3498a
- Orchid LeiΔE00 2.165 · #9c4a7d
- Viva MagentaΔE00 2.189 · #a0488c
- WillowherbΔE00 2.344 · #914681
- Vivid ViolaΔE00 2.608 · #a4407e
- Verve VioletΔE00 2.723 · #944f80
- Striking PurpleΔE00 2.798 · #944e87
- Romantic RoseΔE00 3.051 · #aa4488
- Purple WineΔE00 3.229 · #97397f
- Wild AsterΔE00 3.252 · #a53783
- Purple PerilΔE00 3.36 · #903f75
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.