Plum Kingdom
#aa3377
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa3377
RGB
170, 51, 119
OKLCh
51.9% 0.169 349.4°
CIELAB (D50)
41.9, 53.4, -11.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.4; on black, Lc -22.4. 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 26.1 and 24.5 and 59.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.09:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.45:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.09:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa3377
protanopia
#4d4d77 · ΔE00 26.1
deuteranopia
#696974 · ΔE00 24.5
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 59.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFestival Fuchsia at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Festival FuchsiaΔE00 0.813 · #aa2f78
- Maximum Red PurpleΔE00 1.306 · #a63a79
- Carroburg CrimsonΔE00 1.857 · #a82a70
- Pink BalladΔE00 2.737 · #a6427c
- Vivid ViolaΔE00 2.785 · #a4407e
- Treasured LoveΔE00 3.319 · #bb2277
- Fuchsia RedΔE00 3.411 · #b73879
- King’s Plum PieΔE00 3.465 · #b3107a
- Mystic MaroonΔE00 3.467 · #ad4379
- Wild AsterΔE00 3.474 · #a53783
- Very BerryΔE00 3.553 · #bb3381
- Amaranth Deep PurpleΔE00 3.588 · #9f2b68
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.