Wild Wheat
#e0e1d1
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
#e0e1d1
RGB
224, 225, 209
OKLCh
90.5% 0.021 109.7°
CIELAB (D50)
89.1, -2.4, 7.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 49 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 11% 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 16.0; on black, Lc -87.7. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777869 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
#e0e1d1
protanopia
#e1e1d1 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#e1e1d1 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#e1e1d4 · ΔE00 1.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Green Tea at ΔE00 0.558: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pale Green TeaΔE00 0.558 · #e2e2d2
- Emerging LeafΔE00 0.857 · #e1e1cf
- Corinthian ColumnΔE00 0.884 · #dedecf
- Whitened SageΔE00 0.914 · #dee0d2
- Yoga DazeΔE00 0.973 · #e3e4d2
- Garden PebbleΔE00 0.979 · #e4e4d5
- Light Soft KindΔE00 0.996 · #dcddcc
- Pinch of PistachioΔE00 1.052 · #ddddcc
- Positive EnergyΔE00 1.122 · #e1e2cf
- Twilight TwistΔE00 1.189 · #e5e6d7
- Moss MistΔE00 1.195 · #dee1d3
- Desert SpringsΔE00 1.204 · #dcddcb
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.