Grape Taffy
#f4daf1
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
#f4daf1
RGB
244, 218, 241
OKLCh
91.6% 0.042 329.6°
CIELAB (D50)
89.7, 12.2, -7.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.9; on black, Lc -88.9. 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 10.4 and 10.7 and 38.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877084 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
#f4daf1
protanopia
#ddddf1 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#e2e2f0 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#e7e78d · ΔE00 38.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInfatuation at ΔE00 1.346: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- InfatuationΔE00 1.346 · #f0d5ea
- Scented SpringΔE00 1.395 · #eed5ee
- Fairy SaltΔE00 2.352 · #ffe0f5
- JacarandaΔE00 2.45 · #f9d7ee
- Lilacs in SpringΔE00 2.525 · #e9cfe5
- All Made UpΔE00 2.542 · #efd7e7
- Nursery PinkΔE00 2.604 · #f4d8e8
- Silky PinkΔE00 2.636 · #ffddf4
- Champagne EleganceΔE00 2.687 · #ebd3e4
- Little TouchΔE00 2.767 · #e7cfe8
- So This Is LoveΔE00 2.783 · #ffdef2
- Sweet DreamsΔE00 2.822 · #eccee5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.