HueComb

Digital Lavender

#cac0e1

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

#cac0e1

RGB

202, 192, 225

OKLCh

82.6% 0.047 299.2°

CIELAB (D50)

79.3, 8.3, -15.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.3; on black, Lc -71.4. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.73:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.14:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.14:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7290 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

#cac0e1

protanopia

#c1c1e1 · ΔE00 4.2

deuteranopia

#c3c3e1 · ΔE00 4.2

tritanopia

#c5c5c6 · ΔE00 13.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParty Hat at ΔE00 0.443: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.