Cappuccino Cosmico
#e1ddcd
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
#e1ddcd
RGB
225, 221, 205
OKLCh
89.6% 0.022 95.3°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, -0.6, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 84 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 13% 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 17.7; on black, Lc -85.9. 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
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7768 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
#e1ddcd
protanopia
#ddddcd · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#dedecd · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#dfdfbf · ΔE00 5.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isConfident White at ΔE00 0.741: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Confident WhiteΔE00 0.741 · #e4dfce
- CocoonΔE00 0.754 · #dedbcc
- White BasicsΔE00 0.878 · #e4dfd0
- Fossil StoneΔE00 1.002 · #e3ddcc
- Catacomb BoneΔE00 1.026 · #e2dccc
- Light GraniteΔE00 1.039 · #e2ddcf
- Winter FrostΔE00 1.043 · #e4decd
- GuesthouseΔE00 1.08 · #e3e0d2
- Natural ChoiceΔE00 1.082 · #e3ded0
- LitewoodΔE00 1.153 · #e5dfcf
- Southern BreezeΔE00 1.166 · #e4dfd1
- Quail EggΔE00 1.182 · #e3ddce
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.