Heart Potion
#a97fb1
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a97fb1
RGB
169, 127, 177
OKLCh
65.5% 0.087 321.0°
CIELAB (D50)
58.7, 23.3, -20.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 60.3; on black, Lc -41.4. 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 12.7 and 12.6 and 53.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.30:1 — large text only
Black text
6.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#916899 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
#a97fb1
protanopia
#8585b1 · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#8d8db0 · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 53.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLobby Lilac at ΔE00 0.797: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lobby LilacΔE00 0.797 · #a780b2
- Berries GaloreΔE00 1.515 · #ab7cb4
- Design DelightΔE00 1.525 · #a47bac
- African VioletΔE00 2.112 · #b085b7
- Pleasant DreamΔE00 2.131 · #a379aa
- Purple StaticeΔE00 2.16 · #a885b5
- VirtuousΔE00 2.499 · #9f7ba9
- Nightshade VioletΔE00 2.777 · #a383ac
- Karma ChameleonΔE00 2.848 · #9f78a9
- HeatherΔE00 2.992 · #a484ac
- Cloudy PlumΔE00 3.056 · #9d7aac
- Daylight LilacΔE00 3.068 · #a385b3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.