Purple Poodle
#dab4cc
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
#dab4cc
RGB
218, 180, 204
OKLCh
81.0% 0.054 340.2°
CIELAB (D50)
77.3, 17.1, -6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 34.7; on black, Lc -67.9. 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 14.0 and 14.6 and 47.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.85:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f6d83 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
#dab4cc
protanopia
#b9b9cc · ΔE00 14.0
deuteranopia
#c0c0cb · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 47.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlissfully Mine at ΔE00 0.696: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blissfully MineΔE00 0.696 · #dab6cd
- Pink IvoryΔE00 1.073 · #d6b3cc
- Private-Label PinkΔE00 1.194 · #d9b2c7
- Immortal IndigoΔE00 1.517 · #d8b7cf
- Pink LavenderΔE00 1.599 · #d9afca
- Pink PowerΔE00 1.994 · #d5b6cd
- Eau de RoseΔE00 2.253 · #e4bbd1
- Designer PinkΔE00 2.442 · #e1bcd8
- Icing FlowerΔE00 2.455 · #d5b7cb
- Lavender KnollΔE00 2.564 · #d3b0ce
- Tranquil DuskΔE00 2.642 · #d3b2c3
- Child’s PlayΔE00 2.678 · #e7bcd4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.