HueComb

Lavender

#b56edc

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

Hex

#b56edc

RGB

181, 110, 220

OKLCh

65.9% 0.171 312.4°

CIELAB (D50)

57.8, 43.0, -45.5

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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.9; on black, Lc -40.8. 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 15.9 and 15.0 and 66.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.37:1 — large text only

Black text

6.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f58c4 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

#b56edc

protanopia

#7979dc · ΔE00 15.9

deuteranopia

#8888db · ΔE00 15.0

tritanopia

#969600 · ΔE00 66.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRich Lilac at ΔE00 2.736: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.