Monet Magic
#c1acc3
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
#c1acc3
RGB
193, 172, 195
OKLCh
77.0% 0.040 323.3°
CIELAB (D50)
72.7, 10.9, -8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 41.3; on black, Lc -60.9. 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 9.0 and 9.3 and 34.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847186 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
#c1acc3
protanopia
#afafc3 · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#b2b2c3 · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#b7b776 · ΔE00 34.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeather Feather at ΔE00 0.563: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Heather FeatherΔE00 0.563 · #c3adc5
- Lavish LavenderΔE00 0.872 · #c2aec3
- Linnea BlossomΔE00 0.888 · #c2abc4
- Fair OrchidΔE00 1.382 · #bda7be
- Lavender FrostΔE00 1.734 · #bdabbe
- VelourΔE00 1.736 · #baa7bf
- Purple ChalkΔE00 1.747 · #c4adc9
- Purple EssenceΔE00 1.846 · #c2b1c8
- Really RomanticΔE00 2.001 · #c2b1c5
- Viola SororiaΔE00 2.092 · #b9a5bd
- SvelteΔE00 2.557 · #b8a3bb
- Lavender FogΔE00 2.824 · #c5b5cc
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.