Mighty Mauve
#8f7f85
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8f7f85
RGB
143, 127, 133
OKLCh
61.3% 0.021 353.1°
CIELAB (D50)
54.8, 7.1, -0.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 65.4; on black, Lc -36.2. 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 8.0 and 8.5 and 28.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.79:1 — large text only
Black text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827379 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
#8f7f85
protanopia
#818185 · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#848485 · ΔE00 8.5
tritanopia
#87873d · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMauve Jazz at ΔE00 0.893: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mauve JazzΔE00 0.893 · #908186
- Purple DoveΔE00 0.972 · #917f84
- GanymedeΔE00 1.348 · #8b7d82
- Gothic PurpleΔE00 1.536 · #92838a
- VenetianΔE00 1.705 · #928083
- LavendaireΔE00 2.121 · #8f818b
- Mauvey PinkΔE00 2.284 · #8c8188
- QuailΔE00 2.285 · #96838b
- Mediaeval WineΔE00 2.404 · #8c7d88
- VienneseΔE00 2.429 · #8c8185
- Iced OrchidΔE00 2.705 · #8e7d89
- Purple RubiateΔE00 2.794 · #8b7880
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.