Girl Power
#d39bcb
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d39bcb
RGB
211, 155, 203
OKLCh
75.8% 0.092 331.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.6, 27.3, -16.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.3; on black, Lc -57.8. 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 16.0 and 16.1 and 56.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6593 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
#d39bcb
protanopia
#a3a3cb · ΔE00 16.0
deuteranopia
#aeaeca · ΔE00 16.1
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 56.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVelvet Horizon at ΔE00 1.706: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Velvet HorizonΔE00 1.706 · #d39ed2
- Pastel VioletΔE00 1.736 · #cb99c9
- Clover PinkΔE00 1.868 · #cd9bc4
- Ineffable MagentaΔE00 1.955 · #cc99cc
- Carnation RoseΔE00 2.079 · #ce94c2
- Prize Winning OrchidΔE00 2.097 · #cc9dc6
- PomtiniΔE00 2.467 · #ca93c1
- Rose GardenΔE00 2.49 · #da9ec8
- Chateau RoseΔE00 2.545 · #dba3ce
- Moorland HeatherΔE00 2.71 · #cc94be
- Geranium BudΔE00 2.821 · #cfa1c7
- Exotic VioletΔE00 2.948 · #e1a0cf
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.