Violaceous
#bf8fc4
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bf8fc4
RGB
191, 143, 196
OKLCh
71.4% 0.092 323.3°
CIELAB (D50)
65.5, 25.5, -20.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 51.4; on black, Lc -50.5. 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 13.8 and 13.6 and 56.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#95679a 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
#bf8fc4
protanopia
#9595c4 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#9f9fc3 · ΔE00 13.6
tritanopia
#a9a900 · ΔE00 56.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Souvenir at ΔE00 0.674: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rose SouvenirΔE00 0.674 · #c290c5
- Lavender BlazeΔE00 2.289 · #b68fc3
- DragonfliesΔE00 2.543 · #c189bc
- La la LoveΔE00 2.694 · #bf90bb
- Satin FlowerΔE00 2.707 · #b48fbd
- Sheer LilacΔE00 2.784 · #b793c0
- Violet WhimsyΔE00 2.838 · #b48bb8
- Creeping BellflowerΔE00 2.866 · #b48ac2
- Young PrinceΔE00 3.062 · #b28ebc
- Ineffable MagentaΔE00 3.349 · #cc99cc
- Lavender SweaterΔE00 3.393 · #bd83be
- Pastel VioletΔE00 3.465 · #cb99c9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.