HueComb

Prom Corsage

#e7c3e7

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

#e7c3e7

RGB

231, 195, 231

OKLCh

85.9% 0.063 326.1°

CIELAB (D50)

82.8, 17.7, -12.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.1; on black, Lc -77.0. 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 12.4 and 12.8 and 50.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d6c8d 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

#e7c3e7

protanopia

#c7c7e7 · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#cecee6 · ΔE00 12.8

tritanopia

#d6d635 · ΔE00 50.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomantic Ballad at ΔE00 1.626: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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