Bubble Bath
#e8e0e9
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
#e8e0e9
RGB
232, 224, 233
OKLCh
91.6% 0.015 322.3°
CIELAB (D50)
90.0, 4.0, -3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 28 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 14.4; on black, Lc -89.4. 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 15.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c757d 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
#e8e0e9
protanopia
#e1e1e9 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#e2e2e9 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#e4e4d0 · ΔE00 15.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMinified Magenta at ΔE00 0.521: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Minified MagentaΔE00 0.521 · #e6dfe8
- PeekabooΔE00 0.626 · #e6dee6
- SelagoΔE00 0.685 · #e6dfe7
- Orchid LaneΔE00 0.785 · #e5dde7
- Diluted PinkΔE00 0.88 · #e9dfe8
- Violet VogueΔE00 0.895 · #e9e1e8
- Pale MuseΔE00 0.937 · #e4dde7
- Tiara JewelΔE00 0.972 · #eae0e8
- Weathered PinkΔE00 1.296 · #eadfe8
- Faint FuchsiaΔE00 1.327 · #e6deea
- SpangleΔE00 1.403 · #e5dbe5
- Dream DustΔE00 1.45 · #ebe2e8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.