Lavender Bliss
#cec3dd
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
#cec3dd
RGB
206, 195, 221
OKLCh
83.4% 0.038 304.7°
CIELAB (D50)
80.3, 7.6, -11.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 29.9; on black, Lc -73.0. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 18.7 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d738a 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
#cec3dd
protanopia
#c4c4dd · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#c6c6dd · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#c9c9bd · ΔE00 18.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAwesome Aura at ΔE00 0.612: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Awesome AuraΔE00 0.612 · #ccc1da
- Playful PetalΔE00 1.806 · #cbbdd7
- Ice MauveΔE00 1.809 · #c9c2dd
- Fresh HeatherΔE00 1.96 · #d1c1dd
- PurityΔE00 2.015 · #d7c9e3
- Lavender WaterΔE00 2.039 · #d2c9df
- On LocationΔE00 2.137 · #d4c6dc
- PerspectiveΔE00 2.18 · #cebeda
- Italian FitchΔE00 2.218 · #d0c8e6
- Pretty PurpleΔE00 2.329 · #c4bbd6
- Girl CrushΔE00 2.335 · #d1c0dc
- Purpling DawnΔE00 2.341 · #c8bdd2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.