Velvet Horizon
#d39ed2
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d39ed2
RGB
211, 158, 210
OKLCh
76.6% 0.093 327.1°
CIELAB (D50)
71.5, 26.7, -18.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.0; on black, Lc -59.2. 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 14.9 and 14.9 and 57.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976697 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
#d39ed2
protanopia
#a5a5d2 · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#b0b0d1 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#bbbb00 · ΔE00 57.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIneffable Magenta at ΔE00 1.632: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ineffable MagentaΔE00 1.632 · #cc99cc
- Girl PowerΔE00 1.706 · #d39bcb
- Pastel VioletΔE00 1.955 · #cb99c9
- Favourite LavenderΔE00 1.99 · #d3a5d6
- Damson PlumΔE00 2.41 · #dda0dd
- Plum JuiceΔE00 2.432 · #dea1dd
- Herb RobertΔE00 2.735 · #dda0df
- Prize Winning OrchidΔE00 2.832 · #cc9dc6
- Clover PinkΔE00 3.063 · #cd9bc4
- Barely BloomedΔE00 3.114 · #ddaadd
- Chateau RoseΔE00 3.234 · #dba3ce
- Berry PopsicleΔE00 3.342 · #d6a5cd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.