Lilac Lace
#c6a1cf
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
#c6a1cf
RGB
198, 161, 207
OKLCh
75.7% 0.076 319.6°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, 20.1, -18.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 44.0; on black, Lc -58.2. 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 11.7 and 11.8 and 53.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d6b96 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
#c6a1cf
protanopia
#a6a6cf · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#adadce · ΔE00 11.8
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 53.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLilac Pink at ΔE00 1.548: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lilac PinkΔE00 1.548 · #c09dc8
- Stormy SunriseΔE00 2.469 · #c8a2c8
- Purple ProphetΔE00 2.523 · #bb9eca
- Pale GrapeΔE00 2.589 · #c0a2c7
- CatmintΔE00 2.643 · #c9a8ce
- Graceful GardenΔE00 2.665 · #cba9d0
- Favourite LavenderΔE00 2.718 · #d3a5d6
- Turnip CrownΔE00 2.769 · #bb9ecd
- Feminine FancyΔE00 2.821 · #c4a8cf
- Crocus PetalΔE00 2.911 · #b99bc5
- Mauve MistΔE00 2.937 · #c49bd4
- Cherish the MomentΔE00 2.946 · #ccacd7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.