Mauve
#e0b0ff
A magenta that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e0b0ff
RGB
224, 176, 255
OKLCh
82.7% 0.119 311.6°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, 28.5, -32.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.6; on black, Lc -70.0. 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 12.3 and 11.4 and 60.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9264ae 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
#e0b0ff
protanopia
#b6b6ff · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#c0c0fe · ΔE00 11.4
tritanopia
#caca47 · ΔE00 60.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTestosterose at ΔE00 1.627: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TestosteroseΔE00 1.627 · #ddaaff
- Light VioletΔE00 2.867 · #d6b4fc
- Lavender FragranceΔE00 3.369 · #ddbbff
- Petal PlushΔE00 3.375 · #ddaaee
- Pink IllusionΔE00 3.615 · #d8b8f8
- Pink SugarΔE00 3.8 · #eeaaff
- Teasel DipsacusΔE00 3.983 · #ceaefa
- Medium Lavender MagentaΔE00 3.984 · #dda0fd
- EuphoriaΔE00 4.08 · #eebbff
- Candy DreamsΔE00 4.5 · #e9aef2
- Bright UbeΔE00 4.758 · #d19fe8
- Rich Brilliant LavenderΔE00 4.829 · #f1a7fe
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.