Violet Vogue
#e9e1e8
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
#e9e1e8
RGB
233, 225, 232
OKLCh
91.8% 0.013 329.6°
CIELAB (D50)
90.3, 3.7, -2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 30 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 18% 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 13.9; on black, Lc -89.9. 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 14.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c757b 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
#e9e1e8
protanopia
#e2e2e8 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#e3e3e8 · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#e5e5cf · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDream Dust at ΔE00 0.667: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dream DustΔE00 0.667 · #ebe2e8
- Calm TintΔE00 0.751 · #eae3e9
- SelagoΔE00 0.785 · #e6dfe7
- PeekabooΔE00 0.79 · #e6dee6
- Bubble BathΔE00 0.895 · #e8e0e9
- Tiara JewelΔE00 0.99 · #eae0e8
- Dainty FlowerΔE00 1.036 · #e9dfe5
- Sakura NezuΔE00 1.069 · #e8dfe4
- Minified MagentaΔE00 1.083 · #e6dfe8
- In the SpotlightΔE00 1.138 · #ede6ed
- Diluted PinkΔE00 1.28 · #e9dfe8
- Easter BunnyΔE00 1.287 · #ebe5eb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.