Tamed Beauty
#cfbccf
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
#cfbccf
RGB
207, 188, 207
OKLCh
81.7% 0.034 325.9°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, 9.5, -7.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 33.0; on black, Lc -69.6. 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 8.3 and 8.6 and 31.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837183 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
#cfbccf
protanopia
#bebecf · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#c2c2cf · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#c6c68b · ΔE00 31.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAntique Heather at ΔE00 0.908: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Antique HeatherΔE00 0.908 · #cdbacb
- Last of the LilacsΔE00 1.218 · #cbbbcd
- Sweet PetalΔE00 1.512 · #cbbad0
- Cosmetic MauveΔE00 1.619 · #d3bed5
- BalladΔE00 1.952 · #cab6c6
- Chinaberry BloomΔE00 1.952 · #d6c2d2
- Softly SoftlyΔE00 2.011 · #c9b7ce
- Seedless GrapeΔE00 2.035 · #d3c3d4
- Soft AmethystΔE00 2.118 · #cfb7c9
- Cool QuietΔE00 2.17 · #cbb5c6
- My MonaΔE00 2.347 · #cabdce
- Lovely PinkΔE00 2.371 · #d8bfd4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.