Metal Petal
#b090b2
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
#b090b2
RGB
176, 144, 178
OKLCh
69.4% 0.061 324.3°
CIELAB (D50)
63.6, 16.9, -13.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 54.0; on black, Lc -47.8. 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 11.8 and 12.1 and 48.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b6d8d 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
#b090b2
protanopia
#9494b2 · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#9a9ab1 · ΔE00 12.1
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 48.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSuperstitious at ΔE00 1.835: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SuperstitiousΔE00 1.835 · #ac91b5
- Enthroned AboveΔE00 1.907 · #ac92b0
- Glossy GrapeΔE00 2.096 · #ab92b3
- Knight’s TaleΔE00 2.308 · #aa91ae
- ReveredΔE00 2.571 · #a78faf
- RosevilleΔE00 2.574 · #b495b0
- Voila!ΔE00 2.646 · #af8ba8
- Fashionably PlumΔE00 2.853 · #b28ca9
- Dripping WisteriaΔE00 2.97 · #bb99bb
- Grape SmokeΔE00 3.036 · #b69abc
- Tiny RibbonsΔE00 3.11 · #b98faf
- Gleeful JoyΔE00 3.165 · #a892b4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.