Amorous
#967d96
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
#967d96
RGB
150, 125, 150
OKLCh
62.1% 0.047 326.1°
CIELAB (D50)
55.4, 13.4, -9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 64.6; on black, Lc -37.1. 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 10.6 and 10.9 and 42.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.70:1 — large text only
Black text
5.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#886f88 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
#967d96
protanopia
#808096 · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#858595 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#8a8a0d · ΔE00 42.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Persuasion at ΔE00 1.623: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Violet PersuasionΔE00 1.623 · #927b97
- Mixed BerriesΔE00 1.79 · #96819a
- Passion FruitΔE00 2.398 · #907895
- WildflowerΔE00 2.475 · #927d9b
- Muted BerryΔE00 2.654 · #91788c
- VestigeΔE00 2.993 · #937899
- Berry BlissΔE00 3.207 · #9e8295
- Plum SwirlΔE00 3.237 · #957e8e
- Sweet Potato PeelΔE00 3.286 · #917798
- Mountbatten PinkΔE00 3.303 · #997a8d
- Self PoweredΔE00 3.425 · #8c7591
- Berry BrightΔE00 3.668 · #a08497
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.