Magic Carpet
#9488be
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9488be
RGB
148, 136, 190
OKLCh
65.7% 0.080 294.3°
CIELAB (D50)
59.3, 13.3, -26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 59.4; on black, Lc -42.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.22:1 — large text only
Black text
6.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b6fa4 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
#9488be
protanopia
#8989be · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#8c8cbe · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#8e8ea3 · ΔE00 9.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeliotropic Mauve at ΔE00 0.811: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Heliotropic MauveΔE00 0.811 · #9187bd
- Sunlit AlliumΔE00 1.606 · #9787bb
- Butterfly GardenΔE00 1.812 · #908aba
- HermosaΔE00 2.098 · #9a8ec1
- Silk LilacΔE00 2.179 · #9188b5
- Petrified PurpleΔE00 2.437 · #9c87c1
- Amethyst GreyΔE00 2.555 · #9085c4
- Cold PurpleΔE00 2.638 · #9d8abf
- BougainvillaeaΔE00 2.752 · #9884b9
- Bravo!ΔE00 2.83 · #8c80b9
- Brave PurpleΔE00 2.96 · #968db8
- Sand VerbenaΔE00 2.972 · #9d89bd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.