HueComb

Spectacular Purple

#bb02fe

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

#bb02fe

RGB

187, 2, 254

OKLCh

60.3% 0.301 312.0°

CIELAB (D50)

48.4, 82.0, -79.6

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 69.4; on black, Lc -32.2. 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 20.3 and 76.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.61:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.55:1 — 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

#bb02fe

protanopia

#4343fe · ΔE00 19.3

deuteranopia

#6b6bfd · ΔE00 20.3

tritanopia

#888800 · ΔE00 76.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThe Grape War of 97’ at ΔE00 0.124: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.