Love Priestess
#bb55cc
A magenta that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb55cc
RGB
187, 85, 204
OKLCh
62.3% 0.196 321.7°
CIELAB (D50)
53.2, 54.3, -43.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.5; on black, Lc -35.2. 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 20.9 and 19.9 and 69.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.97:1 — large text only
Black text
5.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b14bc2 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
#bb55cc
protanopia
#6767cc · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#7e7ecb · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 69.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMedium Orchid at ΔE00 1.385: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Medium OrchidΔE00 1.385 · #ba55d3
- Unloaded Texture PurpleΔE00 2.896 · #c154c1
- Still FuchsiaΔE00 3.078 · #c154c0
- Fuchsia TintΔE00 3.114 · #c255c1
- Ultraviolet BerlΔE00 3.279 · #bb44cc
- Thick PinkΔE00 3.616 · #cc55dd
- Rich LilacΔE00 3.987 · #b666d2
- Ultraviolet OnsibleΔE00 4.252 · #bb44dd
- Ultraviolet CrynerΔE00 4.517 · #bb44bb
- Zǐ Sè PurpleΔE00 4.616 · #c94cbe
- Pinkish PurpleΔE00 4.716 · #d648d7
- Purple Urn OrchidΔE00 4.784 · #c364c5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.