HueComb

Purple’s Baby Sister

#eec3ee

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

#eec3ee

RGB

238, 195, 238

OKLCh

86.8% 0.075 326.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.6, 21.1, -15.3

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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.7; on black, Lc -78.4. 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 13.4 and 13.7 and 55.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.68:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.68:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916a91 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

#eec3ee

protanopia

#c8c8ee · ΔE00 13.4

deuteranopia

#d1d1ed · ΔE00 13.7

tritanopia

#dada00 · ΔE00 55.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isProm Corsage at ΔE00 2.176: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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