HueComb

Violet Vapour

#e5dae1

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

#e5dae1

RGB

229, 218, 225

OKLCh

89.9% 0.015 338.9°

CIELAB (D50)

88.1, 4.8, -2.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 21% 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 17.6; on black, Lc -86.0. 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 5.3 and 5.6 and 19.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e747a 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

#e5dae1

protanopia

#dbdbe1 · ΔE00 5.3

deuteranopia

#dddde1 · ΔE00 5.6

tritanopia

#e0e0bc · ΔE00 19.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIced Mauve at ΔE00 0.649: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Iced MauveΔE00 0.649 · #e8dce3
  • Bōsōzoku PinkΔE00 0.656 · #e7dbe1
  • Diluted RedΔE00 1.099 · #e8dde2
  • Weak MauveΔE00 1.109 · #eadee4
  • Ostrich TailΔE00 1.119 · #eadfe6
  • Secret ScentΔE00 1.17 · #e3d7dc
  • Rajah RoseΔE00 1.195 · #e6d9e2
  • Dainty FlowerΔE00 1.232 · #e9dfe5
  • Wine FrostΔE00 1.238 · #e5d8e1
  • Precocious RedΔE00 1.296 · #e8dee3
  • SpangleΔE00 1.365 · #e5dbe5
  • Weathered PinkΔE00 1.422 · #eadfe8

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