HueComb

Viking Diva

#cabae0

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

#cabae0

RGB

202, 186, 224

OKLCh

81.4% 0.055 304.3°

CIELAB (D50)

77.8, 11.2, -17.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.7; on black, Lc -69.0. 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 6.1 and 6.2 and 24.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7093 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

#cabae0

protanopia

#bcbce0 · ΔE00 6.1

deuteranopia

#bfbfe0 · ΔE00 6.2

tritanopia

#c2c2b2 · ΔE00 24.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDrifting Dream at ΔE00 0.674: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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