HueComb

Pastel Violet

#cb99c9

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cb99c9

RGB

203, 153, 201

OKLCh

74.5% 0.088 327.7°

CIELAB (D50)

69.2, 25.2, -17.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 33% 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 46.3; on black, Lc -55.8. 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 14.7 and 14.8 and 55.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#966794 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

#cb99c9

protanopia

#a0a0c9 · ΔE00 14.7

deuteranopia

#aaaac8 · ΔE00 14.8

tritanopia

#b4b400 · ΔE00 55.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIneffable Magenta at ΔE00 0.745: 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.