Neon Boneyard
#dfc5fe
A violet that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dfc5fe
RGB
223, 197, 254
OKLCh
86.4% 0.082 305.5°
CIELAB (D50)
83.2, 17.4, -24.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.2; on black, Lc -77.8. 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 7.7 and 7.3 and 35.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#856ca0 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
#dfc5fe
protanopia
#c8c8fe · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#cdcdfe · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#d2d2b3 · ΔE00 35.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoggy Heath at ΔE00 1.108: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Foggy HeathΔE00 1.108 · #e2c9ff
- Jane PurpleΔE00 1.665 · #e3c2ff
- Wisteria PowderΔE00 1.719 · #e6c8ff
- Lens Flare PinkΔE00 1.787 · #e4cbff
- Lavender FragranceΔE00 3.036 · #ddbbff
- Pink IllusionΔE00 3.222 · #d8b8f8
- Aquarelle LilacΔE00 3.537 · #edc8ff
- Beefy PinkΔE00 3.588 · #debeef
- Connecticut LilacΔE00 3.85 · #ccbbee
- Sparkling LavenderΔE00 3.866 · #eeccff
- Pale LavenderΔE00 4.191 · #dcd0ff
- Rose DragéeΔE00 4.364 · #eecffe
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.