HueComb

Sweet Lucid Dreams

#ccbbdd

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

#ccbbdd

RGB

204, 187, 221

OKLCh

81.7% 0.051 307.8°

CIELAB (D50)

78.1, 10.9, -14.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.2; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 6.8 and 6.9 and 28.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807190 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

#ccbbdd

protanopia

#bdbddd · ΔE00 6.8

deuteranopia

#c0c0dd · ΔE00 6.9

tritanopia

#c4c4aa · ΔE00 28.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPussyfoot at ΔE00 1.357: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.