Lilac Spring
#8822cc
A violet that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8822cc
RGB
136, 34, 204
OKLCh
50.6% 0.237 306.2°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 61.7, -68.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.5; on black, Lc -20.4. 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 14.4 and 15.3 and 67.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.15:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8822cc
protanopia
#3a3acc · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#5252cb · ΔE00 15.3
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 67.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Violet at ΔE00 1.989: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- French VioletΔE00 1.989 · #8806ce
- Vibrant VioletΔE00 2.386 · #9400d4
- Violet InkΔE00 2.398 · #9400d3
- Purple ProtestΔE00 2.437 · #8822dd
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 2.63 · #8822bb
- Puissant PurpleΔE00 3.359 · #7722cc
- Violet PoisonΔE00 3.43 · #8601bf
- Bright Blue VioletΔE00 3.601 · #8a2be2
- Prom QueenΔE00 3.74 · #9b1dcd
- Thick PurpleΔE00 3.835 · #8833dd
- Dreamscape PurpleΔE00 4.024 · #9632ce
- VioletΔE00 4.323 · #9a0eea
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.