Noble Cream
#e1dace
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
#e1dace
RGB
225, 218, 206
OKLCh
89.1% 0.018 81.3°
CIELAB (D50)
87.4, 1.0, 6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 98 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 17% 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 18.9; on black, Lc -84.6. 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 10.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766b 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
#e1dace
protanopia
#dbdbce · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#dcdcce · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#ddddb5 · ΔE00 10.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Sandy Day at ΔE00 0.436: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light Sandy DayΔE00 0.436 · #e1dacf
- MerinoΔE00 0.602 · #e1dbd0
- Light MaleΔE00 0.814 · #e3dbd0
- Always NeutralΔE00 0.816 · #dfd7cb
- Powder CakeΔE00 0.863 · #dfd7ca
- Last StrawΔE00 0.879 · #e3dbcd
- Pacer WhiteΔE00 0.899 · #e5ddd0
- Taupe TeaseΔE00 0.901 · #e0d9cf
- Egret WhiteΔE00 0.911 · #dfd9cf
- Quiet InterludeΔE00 0.916 · #ddd7cc
- Wheat Flour WhiteΔE00 0.92 · #ddd6ca
- White LuxeΔE00 0.985 · #e2dcd2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.