Diva
#c9a0ff
A violet that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c9a0ff
RGB
201, 160, 255
OKLCh
77.8% 0.138 303.2°
CIELAB (D50)
72.4, 29.3, -41.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.2; on black, Lc -61.0. 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 10.1 and 9.4 and 42.6 — 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
#8c64bd 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
#c9a0ff
protanopia
#a5a5ff · ΔE00 10.1
deuteranopia
#adadfe · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#b6b695 · ΔE00 42.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHydrangea Purple at ΔE00 0.25: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hydrangea PurpleΔE00 0.25 · #caa0ff
- LilacΔE00 1.525 · #cea2fd
- Baby PurpleΔE00 2.117 · #ca9bf7
- LilásΔE00 2.123 · #cc99ff
- Purple HepaticaΔE00 2.645 · #ccaaff
- Lavender CreamΔE00 3.059 · #c79fef
- Plasma TrailΔE00 3.586 · #d59cfc
- Dream VapourΔE00 4.223 · #cc99ee
- Teasel DipsacusΔE00 4.26 · #ceaefa
- LiliacΔE00 4.552 · #c48efd
- Bright LavenderΔE00 4.966 · #bf94e4
- Medium Lavender MagentaΔE00 5.045 · #dda0fd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.