Dripping Wisteria
#bb99bb
A magenta 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
#bb99bb
RGB
187, 153, 187
OKLCh
72.5% 0.062 326.2°
CIELAB (D50)
67.2, 17.5, -12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 49.1; on black, Lc -52.8. 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 12.3 and 12.7 and 49.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.50:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c6c8d 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
#bb99bb
protanopia
#9d9dbb · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#a4a4ba · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 49.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLupine at ΔE00 1.309: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- LupineΔE00 1.309 · #be9cc1
- Tuileries TintΔE00 1.758 · #b89cbc
- Grape SmokeΔE00 1.797 · #b69abc
- RosevilleΔE00 2.63 · #b495b0
- CherishedΔE00 2.732 · #ba97b1
- Pale GrapeΔE00 2.947 · #c0a2c7
- Lilac PinkΔE00 2.948 · #c09dc8
- Metal PetalΔE00 2.97 · #b090b2
- Beach LilacΔE00 3.006 · #bda2c4
- Crocus PetalΔE00 3.08 · #b99bc5
- Blooming LilacΔE00 3.118 · #ba93af
- Novel LilacΔE00 3.206 · #c2a4c2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.