Perrywinkle
#8f8ce7
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8f8ce7
RGB
143, 140, 231
OKLCh
68.1% 0.132 283.8°
CIELAB (D50)
61.4, 17.7, -46.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.2; on black, Lc -45.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#716cc4 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
#8f8ce7
protanopia
#8c8ce7 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#8d8de7 · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#8d8de2 · ΔE00 0.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Blue Shadow at ΔE00 2.975: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Lavender Blue ShadowΔE00 2.975 · #8b88f8
- Indigo BloomΔE00 3.229 · #8a83da
- PeriwinkleΔE00 4.19 · #8e82fe
- PortageΔE00 4.307 · #8b98d8
- Bailey BellsΔE00 4.588 · #8a8ec9
- Pansy GardenΔE00 4.654 · #7f8fca
- True LavenderΔE00 4.666 · #7e89c8
- Mystic IrisΔE00 4.675 · #8596d2
- CobaliteΔE00 4.692 · #9999ff
- Mood ModeΔE00 4.719 · #7f90cb
- AdoraΔE00 5.043 · #8d8dc9
- TanzineΔE00 5.046 · #7983d7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.