HueComb

Magento

#bf3cff

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bf3cff

RGB

191, 60, 255

OKLCh

63.5% 0.273 311.4°

CIELAB (D50)

52.8, 72.3, -72.9

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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.7; on black, Lc -36.0. 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 19.1 and 19.3 and 75.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.96:1 — large text only

Black text

5.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b52ef4 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

#bf3cff

protanopia

#5858ff · ΔE00 19.1

deuteranopia

#7777fe · ΔE00 19.3

tritanopia

#909000 · ΔE00 75.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlamingo Queen at ΔE00 2.32: 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.