The Grape War of 97’
#bb00ff
A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb00ff
RGB
187, 0, 255
OKLCh
60.4% 0.302 311.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.4, 82.3, -80.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.3; on black, Lc -32.3. 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 19.3 and 20.2 and 76.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.56:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb00ff
protanopia
#4343ff · ΔE00 19.3
deuteranopia
#6a6afe · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 76.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpectacular Purple at ΔE00 0.124: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spectacular PurpleΔE00 0.124 · #bb02fe
- Hunky HummingbirdΔE00 0.581 · #bb11ff
- Bright PurpleΔE00 0.73 · #be03fd
- Neon PurpleΔE00 0.775 · #bc13fe
- Electric PurpleΔE00 0.825 · #bf00ff
- Poison Purple ParadiseΔE00 1.627 · #b300ff
- Promiscuous PinkΔE00 2.201 · #bb11ee
- Bright VioletΔE00 2.655 · #ad0afd
- Cool PurpleΔE00 2.948 · #aa23ff
- Sweet DesireΔE00 3.183 · #aa33ee
- Digital VioletsΔE00 3.414 · #aa00ff
- Vivid OrchidΔE00 3.538 · #cc00ff
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.