HueComb

Diva Mecha

#ee99ee

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ee99ee

RGB

238, 153, 238

OKLCh

79.6% 0.148 326.9°

CIELAB (D50)

74.2, 42.2, -29.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.9; on black, Lc -63.5. 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 19.7 and 18.4 and 67.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.01:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a958a9 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

#ee99ee

protanopia

#a6a6ee · ΔE00 19.7

deuteranopia

#b7b7ed · ΔE00 18.4

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 67.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVIC 20 Pink at ΔE00 2.385: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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