HueComb

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#c6bbdb

A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#c6bbdb

RGB

198, 187, 219

OKLCh

81.1% 0.046 301.0°

CIELAB (D50)

77.6, 8.6, -14.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 34.0; on black, Lc -68.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 16.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.82:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c728f 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

#c6bbdb

protanopia

#bcbcdb · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#bebedb · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#c1c1bc · ΔE00 16.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLilac Lust at ΔE00 0.744: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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