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RAL 4006

Traffic Purple

RAL 4006 Traffic Purple is a vivid, standardized purple from the RAL traffic color family, designed for consistent use across transportation and public infrastructure. This saturated magenta-purple provides strong visual contrast against urban backgrounds, making it effective for wayfinding systems, transit signage, and public facility identification. Traffic Purple is part of the internationally recognized signal color palette and meets visibility requirements for public safety applications across European transportation networks.

Time9:36 AM
Light
Technical Reference

Color Reference

Hex#902E78
RGBrgb(144, 46, 120)
HSLhsl(315°, 52%, 37%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 68%, 17%, 44%)
Color Analysis
RGB Composition
R
144
G
46
B
120
Temperature
WarmCool
Contrast Accessibility
White text
7.4:1Pass
Black text
2.8:1Fail

WCAG 2.1 AA requires 4.5:1 contrast for normal text. Results show this color as a background.

Spectrum & Perceptual Position

Hue Spectrum
60°120°180°240°300°360°
CIELAB a*b* Chromaticity
-4004080-4004080a* (Green ← → Red)b* (Blue ← → Yellow)
L* (Lightness)36
a* (Green-Red)49
b* (Blue-Yellow)-21
L* (LCh)36
C* (Chroma)53
h° (Hue)337°

CIELAB is a perceptually uniform color space. Euclidean distance between two colors in this diagram closely matches human visual difference. The dot size shows your selected color; slightly larger dots are the nearest perceptual neighbors.

Color Harmonies

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1 locked / 4 free

Reference + opposite hue with tonal variations

Reference
#2
Complementary
#3
Complementary
#4
Complementary
#5
Split Comp +
Pairwise Contrast Ratios
1.7:1
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1.5:1
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2.2:1
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1.5:1

Contrast ratios follow WCAG 2.1 guidelines. Green (≥4.5:1) passes AA for normal text. Amber (≥3:1) passes for large text only. Grey indicates low contrast.

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