HueComb

Marble Grape

#dee2c7

A yellow 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

#dee2c7

RGB

222, 226, 199

OKLCh

90.3% 0.036 114.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.0, -4.8, 12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 16.2; on black, Lc -87.5. 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 5.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767961 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

#dee2c7

protanopia

#e2e2c7 · ΔE00 1.8

deuteranopia

#e1e1c7 · ΔE00 1.8

tritanopia

#e0e0d4 · ΔE00 5.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMore Melon at ΔE00 0.51: 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.