Violet Vamp
#daafd1
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
#daafd1
RGB
218, 175, 209
OKLCh
80.3% 0.067 333.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.2, 20.3, -11.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 36.2; on black, Lc -66.3. 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 14.5 and 15.0 and 51.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.90:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926a8a 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
#daafd1
protanopia
#b5b5d1 · ΔE00 14.5
deuteranopia
#bdbdd0 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 51.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBff at ΔE00 0.406: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BffΔE00 0.406 · #dbb0d3
- Blushing SkyΔE00 1.439 · #d9b1d6
- QueenlyΔE00 1.484 · #d3acce
- Orchid BouquetΔE00 1.98 · #d1acce
- Pink LavenderΔE00 2.085 · #d9afca
- French LilacΔE00 2.095 · #deb7d9
- Lavender KnollΔE00 2.113 · #d3b0ce
- Aristocratic PinkΔE00 2.124 · #ddaacc
- Dreamy PinkΔE00 2.252 · #dfabcd
- Pink GemsΔE00 2.428 · #e6b5d7
- Pink PlungeΔE00 2.648 · #e4add3
- Lofty DelightΔE00 2.66 · #d9a9c6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.