HueComb

Foggy Love

#d5c7e8

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

#d5c7e8

RGB

213, 199, 232

OKLCh

85.1% 0.048 304.6°

CIELAB (D50)

82.2, 9.6, -14.6

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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.9; on black, Lc -76.1. 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 5.7 and 5.8 and 22.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e718f 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

#d5c7e8

protanopia

#c9c9e8 · ΔE00 5.7

deuteranopia

#cbcbe8 · ΔE00 5.8

tritanopia

#cecebf · ΔE00 22.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurity at ΔE00 2.3: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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