Minute Mauve
#f2e4f5
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
#f2e4f5
RGB
242, 228, 245
OKLCh
93.5% 0.027 320.2°
CIELAB (D50)
92.1, 7.1, -6.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.9; on black, Lc -93.1. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.3 and 6.5 and 24.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7382 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
#f2e4f5
protanopia
#e6e6f5 · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#e8e8f5 · ΔE00 6.5
tritanopia
#ebebc8 · ΔE00 24.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSheer Lavender at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sheer LavenderΔE00 0.71 · #efe2f2
- Soft LavenderΔE00 1.19 · #f6e5f6
- Holographic LavenderΔE00 1.231 · #f0e5f5
- Placebo FuchsiaΔE00 1.499 · #f8ebfc
- Divine DoveΔE00 1.804 · #eeddee
- Perfume HazeΔE00 2.106 · #f3e9f7
- Placebo PinkΔE00 2.136 · #fcebfa
- SprinkleΔE00 2.182 · #ebddea
- Faded FuchsiaΔE00 2.291 · #ede2ee
- Cherry PearlΔE00 2.351 · #f9e7f4
- Lovely Euphoric DelightΔE00 2.509 · #ffeeff
- Maiden of the MistΔE00 2.591 · #efdceb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.