HueComb

Turnip Crown

#bb9ecd

A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb9ecd

RGB

187, 158, 205

OKLCh

74.1% 0.074 312.3°

CIELAB (D50)

68.9, 17.5, -20.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 39% 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 46.6; on black, Lc -55.5. 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 9.4 and 9.4 and 43.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.89:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#886c99 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

#bb9ecd

protanopia

#a2a2cd · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#a7a7cc · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#adad6a · ΔE00 43.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Prophet at ΔE00 0.862: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.