HueComb

Homoeopathic Lavender

#e5e0ec

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

#e5e0ec

RGB

229, 224, 236

OKLCh

91.4% 0.017 304.8°

CIELAB (D50)

89.8, 3.4, -5.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 33% 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 14.7; on black, Lc -89.1. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797580 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

#e5e0ec

protanopia

#e1e1ec · ΔE00 2.5

deuteranopia

#e1e1ec · ΔE00 2.6

tritanopia

#e2e2dd · ΔE00 9.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPowdery Mist at ΔE00 0.638: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Powdery MistΔE00 0.638 · #e4e0eb
  • Velvet ScarfΔE00 0.675 · #e3dfec
  • Angelic SentΔE00 0.693 · #e3dfea
  • Modest VioletΔE00 0.966 · #e9e4ef
  • Romantic CruiseΔE00 1.22 · #e7e0ee
  • Pale MuseΔE00 1.377 · #e4dde7
  • Faint FuchsiaΔE00 1.399 · #e6deea
  • Rare CrystalΔE00 1.406 · #e1dee8
  • Opus MagnumΔE00 1.455 · #e3e1ed
  • FarsightedΔE00 1.543 · #e5e3ef
  • Minified MagentaΔE00 1.569 · #e6dfe8
  • Tranquil EveΔE00 1.577 · #ece7f2

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