Magenta Affair
#aa44dd
A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa44dd
RGB
170, 68, 221
OKLCh
59.2% 0.228 312.0°
CIELAB (D50)
48.8, 59.7, -60.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.0; on black, Lc -30.7. 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 17.8 and 17.7 and 70.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.58:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa44dd
protanopia
#5858dd · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#6f6fdc · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 70.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Yam at ΔE00 0.871: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Purple YamΔE00 0.871 · #a846d7
- Pisces Vivid AmethystΔE00 2.373 · #ab46ec
- Sweet DesireΔE00 3.226 · #aa33ee
- Lightish PurpleΔE00 3.451 · #a552e6
- Ultraviolet OnsibleΔE00 3.707 · #bb44dd
- Eupatorium PurpleΔE00 3.952 · #bf36e0
- Shades of RhodoniteΔE00 4.094 · #be2bdf
- Morado PurpleΔE00 4.313 · #9955cc
- Ripe LavanderΔE00 4.467 · #a259ce
- Promiscuous PinkΔE00 4.595 · #bb11ee
- Light Shōtoku PurpleΔE00 4.697 · #aa55ee
- Chaste BlossomsΔE00 4.976 · #9944ee
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.