Nirvana
#a2919b
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a2919b
RGB
162, 145, 155
OKLCh
67.5% 0.025 341.6°
CIELAB (D50)
61.9, 7.9, -2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 9% 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 56.4; on black, Lc -45.4. 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 8.1 and 8.5 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.06:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.06:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83727c 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
#a2919b
protanopia
#93939b · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#96969b · ΔE00 8.5
tritanopia
#9a9a56 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMetamorphosis at ΔE00 1.9: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MetamorphosisΔE00 1.9 · #a9959f
- Cut HeatherΔE00 2.194 · #9e909e
- Romantic HolidayΔE00 2.341 · #a497a1
- Lavender LilyΔE00 2.373 · #a5969c
- Out of PlumbΔE00 2.391 · #9c909c
- Greige VioletΔE00 2.411 · #9c8c9a
- MystiqueΔE00 2.677 · #a598a0
- Fig PreservesΔE00 2.794 · #a7989e
- Duchess LilacΔE00 2.976 · #9b909d
- Purple MauveΔE00 3.023 · #9a8891
- LaylockΔE00 3.122 · #ab9ba5
- Persian PastelΔE00 3.216 · #aa9499
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.