Pastel Lavender
#d8a1c4
A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d8a1c4
RGB
216, 161, 196
OKLCh
77.1% 0.079 340.7°
CIELAB (D50)
72.3, 25.1, -9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 17.1 and 17.8 and 52.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6788 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
#d8a1c4
protanopia
#a8a8c4 · ΔE00 17.1
deuteranopia
#b3b3c3 · ΔE00 17.8
tritanopia
#bfbf00 · ΔE00 52.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isProminent Pink at ΔE00 1.258: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Prominent PinkΔE00 1.258 · #da9ec5
- Rose GardenΔE00 1.84 · #da9ec8
- Aristocratic PinkΔE00 2.299 · #ddaacc
- Chateau RoseΔE00 2.348 · #dba3ce
- Sweet PerfumeΔE00 2.429 · #d49ab9
- Rhubarb GinΔE00 2.433 · #d9a6c1
- Lilac ChiffonΔE00 2.445 · #de9bc4
- Tiara PinkΔE00 2.489 · #daa6cf
- Lofty DelightΔE00 2.49 · #d9a9c6
- Dreamy PinkΔE00 2.547 · #dfabcd
- Berry PopsicleΔE00 2.554 · #d6a5cd
- Pink BegoniaΔE00 2.621 · #dd9cbd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.