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#af8ba8
A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#af8ba8
RGB
175, 139, 168
OKLCh
68.0% 0.059 333.0°
CIELAB (D50)
62.0, 17.8, -9.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 13.4 and 13.9 and 47.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f6c88 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
#af8ba8
protanopia
#9090a8 · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#9797a7 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 47.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFashionably Plum at ΔE00 0.746: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fashionably PlumΔE00 0.746 · #b28ca9
- Lavender HerbΔE00 1.043 · #ad88a4
- Soft ImpactΔE00 1.339 · #b28ea8
- Dusty LavenderΔE00 2.035 · #ac86a8
- Palisade OrchidΔE00 2.036 · #af8ea5
- Tiny RibbonsΔE00 2.41 · #b98faf
- Lover’s TrystΔE00 2.614 · #b48ca3
- Purple LepidoliteΔE00 2.642 · #b88aac
- Wilhelminian PinkΔE00 2.645 · #aa83a4
- Metal PetalΔE00 2.646 · #b090b2
- Fabulous FantasyΔE00 2.649 · #ba90ad
- BaronessΔE00 2.784 · #a785a7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.