La la Love
#bf90bb
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bf90bb
RGB
191, 144, 187
OKLCh
71.2% 0.081 329.3°
CIELAB (D50)
65.4, 23.6, -15.3
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 only 27% 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 51.5; on black, Lc -50.4. 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 14.6 and 14.9 and 53.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956891 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
#bf90bb
protanopia
#9696bb · ΔE00 14.6
deuteranopia
#a0a0ba · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#a9a900 · ΔE00 53.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPomtini at ΔE00 2.309: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- PomtiniΔE00 2.309 · #ca93c1
- Rock Star PinkΔE00 2.316 · #c58bba
- DragonfliesΔE00 2.511 · #c189bc
- Rose SouvenirΔE00 2.552 · #c290c5
- ViolaceousΔE00 2.694 · #bf8fc4
- Violet WhimsyΔE00 2.752 · #b48bb8
- Violet TulleΔE00 2.879 · #ba86b5
- Mauve MagicΔE00 2.892 · #bf91b2
- Moorland HeatherΔE00 2.98 · #cc94be
- Tiny RibbonsΔE00 3.132 · #b98faf
- Carnation RoseΔE00 3.132 · #ce94c2
- Sheer LilacΔE00 3.177 · #b793c0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.