Blushing Sky
#d9b1d6
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
#d9b1d6
RGB
217, 177, 214
OKLCh
80.7% 0.068 328.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, 19.6, -13.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 35.4; on black, Lc -67.1. 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 13.4 and 13.8 and 52.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#906b8d 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
#d9b1d6
protanopia
#b6b6d6 · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#bebed5 · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 52.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBff at ΔE00 1.149: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BffΔE00 1.149 · #dbb0d3
- Violet VampΔE00 1.439 · #daafd1
- QueenlyΔE00 1.65 · #d3acce
- French LilacΔE00 1.669 · #deb7d9
- Orchid BouquetΔE00 1.825 · #d1acce
- PlinkΔE00 2.017 · #d0add3
- ConfectionaryΔE00 2.132 · #d4b4d5
- Lavender KnollΔE00 2.2 · #d3b0ce
- Whisper of PlumΔE00 2.288 · #d4afda
- Romantic MorningΔE00 2.663 · #ddbbdd
- Sweetie PieΔE00 2.753 · #e1bbdb
- Lilac HazeΔE00 2.784 · #d5b6d4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.