Vintage Bloom
#c0b0d0
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
#c0b0d0
RGB
192, 176, 208
OKLCh
78.1% 0.048 307.8°
CIELAB (D50)
74.0, 10.4, -14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% 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 39.4; on black, Lc -62.9. 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 6.6 and 6.7 and 27.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#80718f 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
#c0b0d0
protanopia
#b2b2d0 · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#b5b5d0 · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#b8b8a0 · ΔE00 27.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrape’s Treasure at ΔE00 0.622: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grape’s TreasureΔE00 0.622 · #beaecf
- Jacey’s FavouriteΔE00 1.132 · #bcaccd
- Pastel LilacΔE00 1.141 · #bdb0d0
- Fancy PansyΔE00 1.331 · #bdacca
- PlumeriaΔE00 1.426 · #c3b5d4
- Frosted OrchidΔE00 1.624 · #bfb3d1
- MoonrakerΔE00 1.931 · #c0b2d7
- Tinted IrisΔE00 2.103 · #c4b7d8
- Orchid BloomΔE00 2.38 · #c5aecf
- Elfin HerbΔE00 2.543 · #cab4d4
- ImmortalΔE00 2.776 · #c0a9cc
- Sweet ScentΔE00 2.93 · #c7b7d0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.