HueComb

Prickly Purple

#a264ba

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#a264ba

RGB

162, 100, 186

OKLCh

60.5% 0.142 316.0°

CIELAB (D50)

52.0, 36.7, -35.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.3; on black, Lc -33.4. 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 15.4 and 14.4 and 61.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.14:1 — large text only

Black text

5.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c5eb4 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#a264ba

protanopia

#6d6dba · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#7a7ab9 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#878700 · ΔE00 61.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrunks Hair at ΔE00 3.121: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.