Radiant Moon
#e0e6f0
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
#e0e6f0
RGB
224, 230, 240
OKLCh
92.3% 0.015 260.7°
CIELAB (D50)
91.0, -0.7, -5.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.6; on black, Lc -91.3. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727780 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
#e0e6f0
protanopia
#e5e5f0 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#e4e4f0 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#e3e3ff · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMayon Mist at ΔE00 0.478: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mayon MistΔE00 0.478 · #e1e6f0
- Ghostly TunaΔE00 0.946 · #e2e6ef
- Crystal FallsΔE00 1.107 · #e1e6f2
- Calm IridescenceΔE00 1.229 · #dee2eb
- Violet ExtractΔE00 1.241 · #dee2ec
- Harbour AfternoonΔE00 1.449 · #e0e9f3
- Smell of LavenderΔE00 1.561 · #dce0ea
- Whisper BlueΔE00 1.572 · #e5e8f2
- Chapeau VioletΔE00 1.579 · #dee5ec
- Diluted LilacΔE00 1.664 · #dadfea
- December DawnΔE00 1.673 · #dfe2ea
- Violet VignetteΔE00 1.698 · #d8e0ea
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.