Girl Crush
#d1c0dc
A magenta 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
#d1c0dc
RGB
209, 192, 220
OKLCh
83.0% 0.043 312.3°
CIELAB (D50)
79.8, 10.0, -11.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 30.7; on black, Lc -72.1. 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 7.2 and 7.3 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#81718b 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
#d1c0dc
protanopia
#c2c2dc · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#c5c5dc · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#c9c9a6 · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Heather at ΔE00 0.418: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh HeatherΔE00 0.418 · #d1c1dd
- Plum CakeΔE00 0.475 · #d1bfdc
- PerspectiveΔE00 0.669 · #cebeda
- Purple WhisperΔE00 1.287 · #d4c0df
- New VioletΔE00 1.493 · #d6c1dd
- Petite PurpleΔE00 1.519 · #cfbbd8
- Playful PetalΔE00 1.525 · #cbbdd7
- Tender VioletΔE00 1.832 · #d4c3da
- PussyfootΔE00 1.982 · #cebada
- Purple ShineΔE00 2.091 · #c8bad4
- Sweet Lucid DreamsΔE00 2.268 · #ccbbdd
- Lavender BlissΔE00 2.335 · #cec3dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.