HueComb

Viola

#966ebd

A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#966ebd

RGB

150, 110, 189

OKLCh

61.0% 0.123 306.4°

CIELAB (D50)

53.0, 28.0, -35.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.1; on black, Lc -34.6. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.5 and 9.9 and 50.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.99:1 — large text only

Black text

5.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d65b4 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

#966ebd

protanopia

#7373bd · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#7b7bbc · ΔE00 9.9

tritanopia

#848445 · 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 isLilac Bush at ΔE00 1.954: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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