Dreamy Candy Forest
#b195e4
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b195e4
RGB
177, 149, 228
OKLCh
72.5% 0.116 299.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.5, 22.8, -36.5
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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.6; on black, Lc -52.4. 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 7.4 and 6.9 and 24.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8569b4 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
#b195e4
protanopia
#9898e4 · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#9e9ee4 · ΔE00 6.9
tritanopia
#a4a4a1 · ΔE00 24.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMiddy’s Purple at ΔE00 2.785: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Middy’s PurpleΔE00 2.785 · #aa8ed6
- Dull LavenderΔE00 3.322 · #a899e6
- Violet VelvetΔE00 3.689 · #b19cd9
- Bright LavenderΔE00 3.828 · #bf94e4
- Luminous LavenderΔE00 4.324 · #bf8fe5
- Biloba FlowerΔE00 4.442 · #ae99d2
- LenurpleΔE00 4.617 · #ba93d8
- Lavender CreamΔE00 4.819 · #c79fef
- Pale PurpleΔE00 4.909 · #b790d4
- Gorgeous HydrangeaΔE00 5.121 · #a495cb
- Baby PurpleΔE00 5.124 · #ca9bf7
- DivaΔE00 5.32 · #c9a0ff
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.