HueComb

Velvet Scarf

#e3dfec

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

#e3dfec

RGB

227, 223, 236

OKLCh

91.1% 0.018 300.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.4, 3.2, -5.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 36% 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 15.3; on black, Lc -88.4. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797581 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

#e3dfec

protanopia

#dfdfec · ΔE00 2.0

deuteranopia

#e0e0ec · ΔE00 2.1

tritanopia

#e1e1e0 · ΔE00 6.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHomoeopathic Lavender at ΔE00 0.675: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Homoeopathic LavenderΔE00 0.675 · #e5e0ec
  • Angelic SentΔE00 0.825 · #e3dfea
  • Powdery MistΔE00 0.851 · #e4e0eb
  • Opus MagnumΔE00 1.128 · #e3e1ed
  • FarsightedΔE00 1.33 · #e5e3ef
  • Rare CrystalΔE00 1.386 · #e1dee8
  • Modest VioletΔE00 1.475 · #e9e4ef
  • Romantic CruiseΔE00 1.489 · #e7e0ee
  • Pale OrchidΔE00 1.665 · #dedbe5
  • Homoeopathic LilacΔE00 1.738 · #e1e0eb
  • Monterey MistΔE00 1.744 · #e0dfea
  • Inspired LilacΔE00 1.782 · #dfd9e4

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