Wisteria
#a87dc2
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a87dc2
RGB
168, 125, 194
OKLCh
65.7% 0.110 312.1°
CIELAB (D50)
58.7, 26.7, -29.7
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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.2; on black, Lc -41.5. 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 11.7 and 11.0 and 58.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.29:1 — large text only
Black text
6.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9066a9 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
#a87dc2
protanopia
#8383c2 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#8b8bc1 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 58.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLilac Purple at ΔE00 2.952: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Lilac PurpleΔE00 2.952 · #a183c0
- Lush LilacΔE00 3.136 · #9d7eb7
- Plum BurstΔE00 3.31 · #9c7eb7
- Purple PrideΔE00 3.346 · #a274b5
- Purple Mountains’ MajestyΔE00 3.477 · #9d81ba
- English LavenderΔE00 3.968 · #9d7bb0
- Bell HeatherΔE00 3.969 · #a475b1
- Berries GaloreΔE00 3.997 · #ab7cb4
- Lavender PurpleΔE00 4.332 · #967bb6
- Lobby LilacΔE00 4.508 · #a780b2
- Soft PurpleΔE00 4.629 · #a66fb5
- Cloudy PlumΔE00 4.794 · #9d7aac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.