Hatoba Pigeon
#95859c
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
#95859c
RGB
149, 133, 156
OKLCh
63.9% 0.038 315.6°
CIELAB (D50)
57.6, 9.5, -10.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 61.9; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.44:1 — large text only
Black text
6.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817188 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
#95859c
protanopia
#87879c · ΔE00 7.3
deuteranopia
#8a8a9c · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#8d8d66 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmethyst Smoke at ΔE00 1.128: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Amethyst SmokeΔE00 1.128 · #95879c
- Amethyst Grey VioletΔE00 1.99 · #9c89a1
- Mixed BerriesΔE00 2.126 · #96819a
- EccentricityΔE00 2.196 · #968a9f
- Amethyst PaintΔE00 2.264 · #9c8aa4
- Berry CreamΔE00 2.388 · #9a8ca2
- Smoky MauveΔE00 2.434 · #998ba5
- Purple AshΔE00 2.581 · #8f8395
- NanaΔE00 3.315 · #a08da7
- FuturisticΔE00 3.413 · #998da8
- Femme FataleΔE00 3.459 · #948593
- Smoky GrapeΔE00 3.51 · #9b8fa6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.