HueComb

Holographic Lavender

#f0e5f5

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

#f0e5f5

RGB

240, 229, 245

OKLCh

93.5% 0.024 315.5°

CIELAB (D50)

92.2, 6.0, -6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 5.3 and 19.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d7382 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#f0e5f5

protanopia

#e6e6f5 · ΔE00 5.1

deuteranopia

#e8e8f5 · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#ebebd3 · ΔE00 19.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSheer Lavender at ΔE00 0.985: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.