Last of the Lilacs
#cbbbcd
A magenta 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
#cbbbcd
RGB
203, 187, 205
OKLCh
81.1% 0.030 322.4°
CIELAB (D50)
77.6, 8.3, -6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.2 and 7.5 and 28.3 — no red 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
#817283 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
#cbbbcd
protanopia
#bdbdcd · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#c0c0cd · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#c3c397 · ΔE00 28.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTamed Beauty at ΔE00 1.218: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tamed BeautyΔE00 1.218 · #cfbccf
- Antique HeatherΔE00 1.235 · #cdbacb
- My MonaΔE00 1.256 · #cabdce
- Sweet PetalΔE00 1.461 · #cbbad0
- Delicate MauveΔE00 1.895 · #c5b5ca
- Seedless GrapeΔE00 2.051 · #d3c3d4
- Softly SoftlyΔE00 2.055 · #c9b7ce
- BalladΔE00 2.069 · #cab6c6
- Pink BravadoΔE00 2.223 · #c5b5c3
- Amethyst Light VioletΔE00 2.238 · #cfc2d1
- Lavender FogΔE00 2.367 · #c5b5cc
- Purpling DawnΔE00 2.41 · #c8bdd2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.