Homoeopathic Lilac
#e1e0eb
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
#e1e0eb
RGB
225, 224, 235
OKLCh
91.1% 0.015 290.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.5, 1.9, -5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 32% 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 15.2; on black, Lc -88.5. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.06:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.06:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#77767f 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
#e1e0eb
protanopia
#e0e0eb · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#e0e0eb · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#e0e0e8 · ΔE00 1.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMonterey Mist at ΔE00 0.223: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Monterey MistΔE00 0.223 · #e0dfea
- Flor LilaΔE00 0.512 · #e0e0eb
- Timid PurpleΔE00 0.577 · #dfdfea
- Icy LavenderΔE00 0.645 · #e2e2ed
- Opus MagnumΔE00 0.733 · #e3e1ed
- Amourette EternelleΔE00 0.889 · #e0dfe8
- FarsightedΔE00 0.986 · #e5e3ef
- Rare CrystalΔE00 1.118 · #e1dee8
- Guardian AngelΔE00 1.304 · #e4e1ea
- Minified PurpleΔE00 1.322 · #e1dee7
- Lavender SyrupΔE00 1.369 · #e6e6f1
- Hosta FlowerΔE00 1.399 · #dcdde7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.