HueComb

Moonraker

#c0b2d7

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

#c0b2d7

RGB

192, 178, 215

OKLCh

78.7% 0.054 302.4°

CIELAB (D50)

74.7, 10.5, -16.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.3; on black, Lc -64.1. 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 5.4 and 5.5 and 21.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.98:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7193 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c0b2d7

protanopia

#b4b4d7 · ΔE00 5.4

deuteranopia

#b6b6d7 · ΔE00 5.5

tritanopia

#b9b9b0 · ΔE00 21.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel Lilac at ΔE00 1.636: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.