Wizard’s Brew
#a090b8
A violet 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
#a090b8
RGB
160, 144, 184
OKLCh
68.1% 0.061 303.1°
CIELAB (D50)
62.3, 12.1, -18.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 55.7; on black, Lc -46.1. 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 5.9 and 6.0 and 24.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.93:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7096 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
#a090b8
protanopia
#9292b8 · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#9595b8 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#98988c · ΔE00 24.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYolanda at ΔE00 0.554: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- YolandaΔE00 0.554 · #a291ba
- Lush MauveΔE00 0.636 · #a091b7
- Chive FlowerΔE00 1.797 · #a193bf
- Lilac BreezeΔE00 2.317 · #a590c0
- Purple AgateΔE00 2.366 · #988eb4
- Greek LavenderΔE00 2.37 · #9b8fb0
- Enchanted LilacΔE00 2.375 · #a893c1
- KismetΔE00 2.594 · #a18ab7
- Ode to PurpleΔE00 2.605 · #a798c2
- Flirty PinkΔE00 2.905 · #9e88b1
- BloomsberryΔE00 2.995 · #a598c4
- Saffron Blossom MauveΔE00 3.153 · #9c8aab
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.