HueComb

Violet Heaven

#cdb7fa

A violet that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#cdb7fa

RGB

205, 183, 250

OKLCh

82.1% 0.095 299.4°

CIELAB (D50)

78.1, 17.9, -30.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.0; on black, Lc -69.6. 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 6.2 and 5.7 and 20.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#816caa 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

#cdb7fa

protanopia

#babafa · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#bebefa · ΔE00 5.7

tritanopia

#c2c2c3 · ΔE00 20.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Tonic at ΔE00 1.723: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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