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Bleak Constantinople

#630c66
Notes

Bleak Constantinople (#630C66) is a deep violet with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (298°, 79%, 22%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#630c66
RGB
rgb(99, 12, 102)
HSL
hsl(298, 79%, 22%)
HWB
hwb(298 5% 60%)
OKLCH
oklch(35.9% 0.155 326.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3547 0.0838 0.3862)
HSV
hsv(298, 88%, 40%)
LAB
lab(23.26% 46.91 -30.58)
LCH
lch(23.26% 56.00 326.90)
CMYK
cmyk(3%, 88%, 0%, 60%)

Etymology

Bleak
adjective

Old Norse bleikr, pale — sharing root with English bleach. As a color modifier, bleak implies a deep-and-cold-and-comfortless quality, the dark gray-pale of Yorkshire-Moors and Hebrides late-winter atmospheric-light. Sits at the deep-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to grim and bitter in atmospheric register.

Constantinople
noun

Byzantine imperial capital (founded 324 CE as Nova Roma, fell 1453 CE) — and the regulatory home of the purpura monopoly, where Tyrian purple was a state-controlled imperial dye after Justinian I's edict (530 CE). Constantinople color refers to an Empress Theodora San Vitale mosaic robe: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of multi-bath Tyrian shellfish dye on Byzantine silk.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#630c66
Original
#003168
Protanopia
#253b64
Deuteranopia
#661e3b
Tritanopia
#252525
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon White
11.83:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
1.77:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##630C66
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3547 0.0838 0.3862)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.155

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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