HueComb

York Plum

#d3bfe5

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

#d3bfe5

RGB

211, 191, 229

OKLCh

83.3% 0.057 308.8°

CIELAB (D50)

80.0, 12.5, -16.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.4; on black, Lc -72.4. 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 7.4 and 7.6 and 31.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.70:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827092 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

#d3bfe5

protanopia

#c1c1e5 · ΔE00 7.4

deuteranopia

#c5c5e5 · ΔE00 7.6

tritanopia

#c9c9a8 · ΔE00 31.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDrifting Dream at ΔE00 1.762: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.