Somewhere in a Fairytale
#cc99dd
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc99dd
RGB
204, 153, 221
OKLCh
75.4% 0.110 317.5°
CIELAB (D50)
69.9, 28.4, -27.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.1; on black, Lc -57.0. 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 13.6 and 12.8 and 60.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9565a5 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
#cc99dd
protanopia
#a0a0dd · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#aaaadc · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 60.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Ube at ΔE00 2.161: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Bright UbeΔE00 2.161 · #d19fe8
- Silver RustΔE00 2.335 · #c9a0df
- Autumn WisteriaΔE00 2.399 · #c9a0dc
- Mauve MistΔE00 2.522 · #c49bd4
- Spring WisteriaΔE00 3.201 · #cda4de
- Tropical VioletΔE00 3.434 · #cda5df
- Amethyst ShowΔE00 3.48 · #bd97cf
- Dream VapourΔE00 3.9 · #cc99ee
- Herb RobertΔE00 4.088 · #dda0df
- LenurpleΔE00 4.098 · #ba93d8
- Ineffable MagentaΔE00 4.381 · #cc99cc
- Damson PlumΔE00 4.393 · #dda0dd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.