Enchanted Lavender
#bfa3d9
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bfa3d9
RGB
191, 163, 217
OKLCh
75.8% 0.082 308.1°
CIELAB (D50)
70.9, 18.2, -23.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.7; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 8.5 and 8.2 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.46:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.46:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#876c9f 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
#bfa3d9
protanopia
#a6a6d9 · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#acacd9 · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#b2b283 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Premiere at ΔE00 1.516: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple PremiereΔE00 1.516 · #b9a0d2
- PerfumeΔE00 1.748 · #c2a9db
- Turnip CrownΔE00 2.549 · #bb9ecd
- Lucius LilacΔE00 2.585 · #baa2ce
- Dechala LilacΔE00 2.774 · #b69fcc
- Autumn WisteriaΔE00 3.014 · #c9a0dc
- Silver RustΔE00 3.026 · #c9a0df
- Tropical VioletΔE00 3.205 · #cda5df
- Glass VioletΔE00 3.223 · #b7a2cc
- Purple ProphetΔE00 3.302 · #bb9eca
- Spring WisteriaΔE00 3.344 · #cda4de
- Mauve MistΔE00 3.446 · #c49bd4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.