Femme Fatale
#948593
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#948593
RGB
148, 133, 147
OKLCh
63.5% 0.027 328.0°
CIELAB (D50)
57.2, 7.8, -5.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 9% 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 62.4; on black, Lc -39.3. 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 7.3 and 7.6 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.48:1 — large text only
Black text
6.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817280 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
#948593
protanopia
#878793 · ΔE00 7.3
deuteranopia
#8a8a93 · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#8d8d5c · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuixotic at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- QuixoticΔE00 0.676 · #948491
- LavendaireΔE00 2.341 · #8f818b
- Greige VioletΔE00 2.525 · #9c8c9a
- Lost Lavender SomewhereΔE00 2.772 · #8d828c
- Purple MauveΔE00 2.782 · #9a8891
- Smokey LilacΔE00 2.785 · #928996
- Iced OrchidΔE00 3.039 · #8e7d89
- Cinema ScreenΔE00 3.079 · #95878e
- Asian VioletΔE00 3.096 · #8b818c
- Gothic PurpleΔE00 3.138 · #92838a
- QuailΔE00 3.152 · #96838b
- Mediaeval WineΔE00 3.226 · #8c7d88
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.