Lavendless
#b86fc2
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b86fc2
RGB
184, 111, 194
OKLCh
65.1% 0.143 322.6°
CIELAB (D50)
57.4, 39.4, -31.5
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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.8; on black, Lc -39.9. 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 17.8 and 16.6 and 63.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.45:1 — large text only
Black text
6.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a35bad 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
#b86fc2
protanopia
#7a7ac2 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#8a8ac1 · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 63.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Urn Orchid at ΔE00 3.211: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Purple Urn OrchidΔE00 3.211 · #c364c5
- Gulābī PinkΔE00 3.906 · #c772c0
- Soft PurpleΔE00 3.916 · #a66fb5
- Moonlight MelodyΔE00 4.17 · #af73b0
- Berry BurstΔE00 4.279 · #ac72af
- Purple KushΔE00 4.495 · #cc77cc
- Rich LilacΔE00 4.519 · #b666d2
- Purple PrideΔE00 5.127 · #a274b5
- Bell HeatherΔE00 5.202 · #a475b1
- Blueberry GlazeΔE00 5.377 · #cc66dd
- Jewel CaterpillarΔE00 5.433 · #d374d5
- French MauveΔE00 5.52 · #d473d4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.