Berries Galore
#ab7cb4
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ab7cb4
RGB
171, 124, 180
OKLCh
65.2% 0.097 320.9°
CIELAB (D50)
58.3, 26.1, -22.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 60.8; on black, Lc -40.9. 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 13.5 and 13.1 and 55.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.35:1 — large text only
Black text
6.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#94669d 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
#ab7cb4
protanopia
#8282b4 · ΔE00 13.5
deuteranopia
#8c8cb3 · ΔE00 13.1
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 55.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeart Potion at ΔE00 1.515: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Heart PotionΔE00 1.515 · #a97fb1
- Lobby LilacΔE00 1.907 · #a780b2
- Design DelightΔE00 2.032 · #a47bac
- Pleasant DreamΔE00 2.369 · #a379aa
- Bell HeatherΔE00 2.584 · #a475b1
- African VioletΔE00 2.884 · #b085b7
- Karma ChameleonΔE00 3.046 · #9f78a9
- Moonlight MelodyΔE00 3.083 · #af73b0
- Berry BurstΔE00 3.133 · #ac72af
- VirtuousΔE00 3.23 · #9f7ba9
- Purple StaticeΔE00 3.285 · #a885b5
- Cloudy PlumΔE00 3.338 · #9d7aac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.