Lily
#c19fb3
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
#c19fb3
RGB
193, 159, 179
OKLCh
73.9% 0.048 342.2°
CIELAB (D50)
69.1, 15.4, -5.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 46.6; on black, Lc -55.4. 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 13.4 and 13.9 and 44.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d6e81 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
#c19fb3
protanopia
#a3a3b3 · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#aaaab2 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#b1b100 · ΔE00 44.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHollyhock Pink at ΔE00 0.595: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hollyhock PinkΔE00 0.595 · #c2a1b5
- Pretty LadyΔE00 0.684 · #c3a1b6
- Taste of BerryΔE00 1.615 · #c8a3b8
- Blackberry SorbetΔE00 1.786 · #c1a3b9
- FiddlesticksΔE00 1.928 · #bb9fb1
- ExquisiteΔE00 1.995 · #c8a3bb
- Classy MauveΔE00 2.1 · #bb99aa
- Shady PinkΔE00 2.267 · #c4a1af
- Dancing WandΔE00 2.311 · #c8a4bd
- Fragrant LilacΔE00 2.356 · #caa7bb
- DamselΔE00 2.458 · #c69eae
- Idyllic PinkΔE00 2.467 · #c89eb7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.