HueComb

Matt Lilac

#dec6d3

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

#dec6d3

RGB

222, 198, 211

OKLCh

85.0% 0.032 343.9°

CIELAB (D50)

82.2, 10.4, -3.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 31% 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 27.1; on black, Lc -75.9. 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 10.2 and 10.7 and 35.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.12:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.12:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#86717d 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

#dec6d3

protanopia

#c9c9d3 · ΔE00 10.2

deuteranopia

#cdcdd2 · ΔE00 10.7

tritanopia

#d2d26d · ΔE00 35.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrozen Frappé at ΔE00 0.244: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Frozen FrappéΔE00 0.244 · #ddc5d2
  • Blushed VelvetΔE00 0.512 · #dec5d3
  • Light LilacΔE00 0.773 · #dcc6d2
  • Scented SoapΔE00 0.778 · #dbc5d2
  • Elusive MauveΔE00 0.828 · #dec4d2
  • EtceteraΔE00 1.049 · #e1c6d4
  • Sleepy KissesΔE00 1.157 · #dcc7d5
  • BlissfulΔE00 1.193 · #ddc4d4
  • Extreme LavenderΔE00 1.232 · #dfc5d5
  • Mauve OrgandieΔE00 1.27 · #d9c4d0
  • Marvellous MagicΔE00 1.413 · #e1c6d6
  • Tip ToesΔE00 1.485 · #d8c2cd

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