Fuchsia Pheromone
#9f4cb7
A magenta that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9f4cb7
RGB
159, 76, 183
OKLCh
56.4% 0.176 318.1°
CIELAB (D50)
46.7, 47.3, -42.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.1; on black, Lc -27.6. 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 18.0 and 17.3 and 65.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9f4cb7
protanopia
#5a5ab7 · ΔE00 18.0
deuteranopia
#6d6db6 · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 65.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Plum at ΔE00 1.224: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple PlumΔE00 1.224 · #9c51b6
- PurpureusΔE00 1.682 · #9a4eae
- Royal Gramma PurpleΔE00 1.832 · #a152bd
- Tyrian ShimmerΔE00 2.691 · #9448b0
- Liberal LilacΔE00 2.698 · #9955bb
- Akebi PurpleΔE00 3.503 · #983fb2
- Medium PurpleΔE00 4.517 · #9e43a2
- Vicious VioletΔE00 5.13 · #8f509d
- Morado PurpleΔE00 5.138 · #9955cc
- Purple YamΔE00 5.174 · #a846d7
- Trunks HairΔE00 5.248 · #9b5fc0
- Ripe LavanderΔE00 5.286 · #a259ce
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.