HueComb

Fog Syringa

#c4bad2

A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#c4bad2

RGB

196, 186, 210

OKLCh

80.5% 0.035 304.4°

CIELAB (D50)

76.9, 7.0, -10.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 29% 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 35.1; on black, Lc -67.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 17.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7389 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

#c4bad2

protanopia

#bbbbd2 · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#bdbdd2 · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#bfbfb5 · ΔE00 17.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSavile Row at ΔE00 0.945: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Savile RowΔE00 0.945 · #c0b7cf
  • Orchid HouseΔE00 0.969 · #c3bbd4
  • Lavender PillowΔE00 1.008 · #c5b9d3
  • Pretty PurpleΔE00 1.177 · #c4bbd6
  • Purpling DawnΔE00 1.438 · #c8bdd2
  • Orchid PetalΔE00 1.645 · #bfb4cb
  • Purple ShineΔE00 1.681 · #c8bad4
  • DecencyΔE00 1.719 · #bfb5ca
  • Awesome AuraΔE00 1.922 · #ccc1da
  • Playful PetalΔE00 1.945 · #cbbdd7
  • CollensiaΔE00 2.099 · #bdb7cd
  • Wild LilacΔE00 2.121 · #beb8cd

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.