Pastel Day
#dfd8e1
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dfd8e1
RGB
223, 216, 225
OKLCh
89.0% 0.014 318.7°
CIELAB (D50)
87.1, 3.7, -3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 17% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.2; on black, Lc -84.3. 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 13.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b757d 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
#dfd8e1
protanopia
#d9d9e1 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#dadae1 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#dbdbcb · ΔE00 13.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHe Loves Me at ΔE00 0.896: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- He Loves MeΔE00 0.896 · #e1dbe3
- Titan WhiteΔE00 0.963 · #ddd6e1
- Little LilacΔE00 0.981 · #e0d8df
- Inspired LilacΔE00 0.988 · #dfd9e4
- Pale MuseΔE00 1.218 · #e4dde7
- Orchid LaneΔE00 1.338 · #e5dde7
- PeekabooΔE00 1.525 · #e6dee6
- Violet WhimseyΔE00 1.533 · #dad6df
- Minified MagentaΔE00 1.578 · #e6dfe8
- Blackberry CreamΔE00 1.584 · #d9d3da
- SpangleΔE00 1.615 · #e5dbe5
- SelagoΔE00 1.63 · #e6dfe7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.