HueComb

Periwinkle

#8e82fe

A violet that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#8e82fe

RGB

142, 130, 254

OKLCh

67.5% 0.178 285.0°

CIELAB (D50)

59.9, 28.0, -61.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 57.8; on black, Lc -44.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

3.10:1 — large text only

Black text

6.77:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.77:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7465de is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#8e82fe

protanopia

#8383fe · ΔE00 2.5

deuteranopia

#8686fe · ΔE00 2.5

tritanopia

#8888ed · ΔE00 2.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Blue Shadow at ΔE00 2.078: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

  • Lavender Blue ShadowΔE00 2.078 · #8b88f8
  • Blue Party ParrotΔE00 3.005 · #8080ff
  • PerrywinkleΔE00 4.19 · #8f8ce7
  • OrchidΔE00 4.325 · #7a81ff
  • Forgotten PurpleΔE00 4.455 · #9878f8
  • BainganīΔE00 4.541 · #8273fd
  • Indigo BloomΔE00 5.02 · #8a83da
  • Stargate ShimmerΔE00 5.109 · #7777ff
  • Blackthorn BerryΔE00 5.186 · #8470ff
  • Hera BlueΔE00 5.332 · #7777ee
  • TanzineΔE00 5.827 · #7983d7
  • CobaliteΔE00 6.365 · #9999ff

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