HueComb

Lilac

#cea2fd

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

Hex

#cea2fd

RGB

206, 162, 253

OKLCh

78.5% 0.134 305.7°

CIELAB (D50)

73.3, 29.5, -39.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.0; on black, Lc -62.3. 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 11.0 and 10.2 and 50.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e64b9 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

#cea2fd

protanopia

#a8a8fd · ΔE00 11.0

deuteranopia

#b0b0fc · ΔE00 10.2

tritanopia

#b9b97f · ΔE00 50.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHydrangea Purple at ΔE00 1.308: 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.