Innocent Snowdrop
#d0c7ff
A violet 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
#d0c7ff
RGB
208, 199, 255
OKLCh
85.6% 0.078 292.0°
CIELAB (D50)
82.4, 11.6, -26.5
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 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 26.3; on black, Lc -76.7. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7970a3 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
#d0c7ff
protanopia
#c8c8ff · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#cacaff · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#ccccea · ΔE00 6.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Blue at ΔE00 2.582: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Lavender BlueΔE00 2.582 · #ccccff
- Lavender TonicΔE00 3.385 · #ccbbff
- Pale LavenderΔE00 3.656 · #dcd0ff
- VodkaΔE00 3.847 · #bfc0ee
- Violet GemsΔE00 4.081 · #c4c0e9
- SoapΔE00 4.14 · #cec8ef
- Connecticut LilacΔE00 4.208 · #ccbbee
- Light PeriwinkleΔE00 4.376 · #c1c6fc
- Violet HeavenΔE00 4.442 · #cdb7fa
- Neon BoneyardΔE00 4.984 · #dfc5fe
- Purple SandΔE00 5.143 · #c2b2f0
- Foggy HeathΔE00 5.293 · #e2c9ff
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.