Enchanted Lilac
#a893c1
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
#a893c1
RGB
168, 147, 193
OKLCh
69.8% 0.070 305.4°
CIELAB (D50)
64.0, 14.8, -21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 53.3; on black, Lc -48.6. 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 7.1 and 7.0 and 31.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.76:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#836e9a 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
#a893c1
protanopia
#9696c1 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#9a9ac1 · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#9e9e85 · ΔE00 31.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLilac Breeze at ΔE00 1.082: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lilac BreezeΔE00 1.082 · #a590c0
- YolandaΔE00 1.841 · #a291ba
- Ode to PurpleΔE00 2.144 · #a798c2
- Chive FlowerΔE00 2.208 · #a193bf
- Wizard’s BrewΔE00 2.375 · #a090b8
- BloomsberryΔE00 2.645 · #a598c4
- Classic BouquetΔE00 2.694 · #a38bbf
- Lush MauveΔE00 2.756 · #a091b7
- KismetΔE00 2.877 · #a18ab7
- Grape ArbourΔE00 2.917 · #a598c7
- East SideΔE00 2.937 · #aa8cbc
- Lavender EarlΔE00 2.947 · #af92bd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.