HueComb

Muted Berry

#91788c

A magenta 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

#91788c

RGB

145, 120, 140

OKLCh

60.3% 0.042 333.0°

CIELAB (D50)

53.3, 12.7, -7.1

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 uses only 16% 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 67.2; on black, Lc -34.5. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.9 and 11.4 and 41.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.99:1 — large text only

Black text

5.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#886f83 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

#91788c

protanopia

#7b7b8c · ΔE00 10.9

deuteranopia

#80808b · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#858500 · ΔE00 41.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountbatten Pink at ΔE00 2.475: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

  • Mountbatten PinkΔE00 2.475 · #997a8d
  • Plum SwirlΔE00 2.523 · #957e8e
  • AmorousΔE00 2.654 · #967d96
  • Very GrapeΔE00 2.79 · #927288
  • Classical VioletΔE00 2.817 · #8b7989
  • Plum LegacyΔE00 2.844 · #8e7482
  • Magic GemΔE00 2.904 · #8e7282
  • Hidden MaskΔE00 2.946 · #96748a
  • Faded OrchidΔE00 3.06 · #887383
  • Charming VioletΔE00 3.066 · #8c7281
  • Tragic JulietΔE00 3.107 · #927383
  • Who-Dun-ItΔE00 3.15 · #8b7181

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