Bone
#e0d7c6
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
#e0d7c6
RGB
224, 215, 198
OKLCh
88.2% 0.025 83.4°
CIELAB (D50)
86.4, 1.1, 9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 75 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 20% 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 20.6; on black, Lc -82.8. 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 12.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7667 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
#e0d7c6
protanopia
#d8d8c6 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#dadac6 · ΔE00 4.9
tritanopia
#dcdba3 · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkull at ΔE00 0.688: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SkullΔE00 0.688 · #e3dac9
- Gentle LambΔE00 0.708 · #e3d9c8
- Raw SilkΔE00 0.822 · #e1d9c7
- EarthlingΔE00 0.842 · #ded6c7
- Neutral GroundΔE00 0.85 · #e2daca
- Bare MarketΔE00 0.898 · #dcd4c3
- Sonoran SandsΔE00 0.936 · #ddd5c6
- Stretched CanvasΔE00 0.976 · #dfd8c8
- Canvas LuggageΔE00 0.989 · #e2d7c6
- Canvas TanΔE00 1.013 · #ddd6c6
- Plymouth BeigeΔE00 1.013 · #ddd3c2
- Urban BirdΔE00 1.044 · #ddd4c5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.