Novel Lilac
#c2a4c2
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
#c2a4c2
RGB
194, 164, 194
OKLCh
75.5% 0.054 326.1°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, 15.3, -11.2
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 44.1; on black, Lc -58.0. 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 11.5 and 11.8 and 45.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a6e8a 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
#c2a4c2
protanopia
#a8a8c2 · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#adadc1 · ΔE00 11.8
tritanopia
#b4b433 · ΔE00 45.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarsh Orchid at ΔE00 1.249: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Marsh OrchidΔE00 1.249 · #c4a3bf
- Tea TowelΔE00 1.298 · #c5a5c7
- Beach LilacΔE00 1.914 · #bda2c4
- Pale GrapeΔE00 2.229 · #c0a2c7
- Lilac FluffΔE00 2.268 · #c8a4bf
- ExtraordinaireΔE00 2.346 · #bda6c5
- Tuileries TintΔE00 2.629 · #b89cbc
- Blackberry SorbetΔE00 2.666 · #c1a3b9
- Dancing WandΔE00 2.726 · #c8a4bd
- CatmintΔE00 2.728 · #c9a8ce
- Stormy SunriseΔE00 2.735 · #c8a2c8
- Linnea BlossomΔE00 2.847 · #c2abc4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.