Romanov Mauve
#b97da8
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b97da8
RGB
185, 125, 168
OKLCh
66.5% 0.094 337.6°
CIELAB (D50)
59.8, 28.9, -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 32% 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 59.1; on black, Lc -42.6. 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 17.5 and 17.9 and 53.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.20:1 — large text only
Black text
6.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9e648e 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
#b97da8
protanopia
#8686a8 · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#9292a7 · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 53.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Cheeks at ΔE00 1.453: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple CheeksΔE00 1.453 · #b67ca2
- Hollyhock Blossom PinkΔE00 1.698 · #bd79a5
- Drama VioletΔE00 2.401 · #b883b0
- Eccentric MagentaΔE00 2.406 · #b576a7
- Cheddar Pink MauveΔE00 2.424 · #b67daf
- Victorian VioletΔE00 2.505 · #b079a7
- Opera MauveΔE00 2.617 · #b784a7
- Joie de VivreΔE00 2.619 · #bc86af
- Valentine HeartΔE00 2.723 · #ba789e
- Stage MauveΔE00 2.836 · #b081aa
- Purple StripeΔE00 2.968 · #b183a8
- Sunset HorizonΔE00 3.21 · #ba87aa
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.