Aster
#867ba9
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#867ba9
RGB
134, 123, 169
OKLCh
61.0% 0.070 295.2°
CIELAB (D50)
53.9, 11.8, -23.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.2; on black, Lc -35.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.87:1 — large text only
Black text
5.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b709e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#867ba9
protanopia
#7c7ca9 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#7e7ea9 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#81818f · ΔE00 10.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParmentier at ΔE00 0.587: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ParmentierΔE00 0.587 · #887cab
- Grape ParfaitΔE00 1.676 · #8677a9
- Second PourΔE00 1.949 · #887ca4
- Purple RhapsodyΔE00 2.33 · #8278ad
- Aster PurpleΔE00 2.429 · #8881b0
- Paisley PurpleΔE00 2.554 · #8b79b1
- MurexΔE00 2.726 · #847eb1
- Smashed GrapeΔE00 3.169 · #8775a1
- Old PruneΔE00 3.289 · #8272a4
- Voxatron PurpleΔE00 3.322 · #83769c
- TrumpeterΔE00 3.324 · #907baa
- GentianΔE00 3.458 · #9079ad
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.