Lucius Lilac
#baa2ce
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
#baa2ce
RGB
186, 162, 206
OKLCh
74.8% 0.067 309.4°
CIELAB (D50)
69.9, 15.3, -19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 8.2 and 8.2 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#856e97 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
#baa2ce
protanopia
#a5a5ce · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#a9a9ce · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#aeae83 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlass Violet at ΔE00 0.931: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Glass VioletΔE00 0.931 · #b7a2cc
- Dechala LilacΔE00 1.053 · #b69fcc
- LavendulaΔE00 1.56 · #bca4cb
- Turnip CrownΔE00 1.577 · #bb9ecd
- Purple PremiereΔE00 1.65 · #b9a0d2
- Purple ProphetΔE00 1.716 · #bb9eca
- Violet FieldsΔE00 2.289 · #b8a4c8
- Berry FrappéΔE00 2.429 · #b3a1c6
- Purple GladiolaΔE00 2.515 · #c1abd4
- Enchanted LavenderΔE00 2.585 · #bfa3d9
- PerfumeΔE00 2.643 · #c2a9db
- Crocus PetalΔE00 2.685 · #b99bc5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.