Foggy Plateau
#cfcbe5
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#cfcbe5
RGB
207, 203, 229
OKLCh
85.3% 0.036 292.7°
CIELAB (D50)
82.6, 5.1, -12.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 5.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#78748b 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
#cfcbe5
protanopia
#cbcbe5 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#cccce5 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#cdcdda · ΔE00 5.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVision at ΔE00 1.026: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- VisionΔE00 1.026 · #d2cce5
- OpusΔE00 1.055 · #cecae1
- Purple PurityΔE00 1.399 · #c9c6df
- Dust of the MoonΔE00 1.726 · #cfc9df
- Light MulberryΔE00 1.734 · #d1cae1
- Air CastleΔE00 1.903 · #d7d1e9
- Gregorio GardenΔE00 1.962 · #cbc8dd
- Violet Sweet PeaΔE00 2.106 · #c7c5dc
- Italian FitchΔE00 2.128 · #d0c8e6
- Potentially PurpleΔE00 2.402 · #d5cde3
- Angel KissΔE00 2.406 · #cec7dc
- Ice MauveΔE00 2.457 · #c9c2dd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.