Petrified Purple
#9c87c1
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9c87c1
RGB
156, 135, 193
OKLCh
66.4% 0.087 300.7°
CIELAB (D50)
59.9, 17.1, -27.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.7; on black, Lc -43.1. 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 6.3 and 5.9 and 24.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.16:1 — large text only
Black text
6.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#826da5 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c87c1
protanopia
#8a8ac1 · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#8e8ec1 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#92928c · ΔE00 24.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Purple at ΔE00 1.361: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cold PurpleΔE00 1.361 · #9d8abf
- Sand VerbenaΔE00 1.546 · #9d89bd
- Sunlit AlliumΔE00 1.628 · #9787bb
- BougainvillaeaΔE00 1.704 · #9884b9
- Lilac PurpleΔE00 2.342 · #a183c0
- Magic CarpetΔE00 2.437 · #9488be
- Classic BouquetΔE00 2.644 · #a38bbf
- Purple Mountains’ MajestyΔE00 2.649 · #9d81ba
- HermosaΔE00 2.841 · #9a8ec1
- Heliotropic MauveΔE00 3.139 · #9187bd
- Peony MauveΔE00 3.23 · #9f86b7
- Violet TulipΔE00 3.404 · #9e91c3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.