Closet Skeletons
#e1ded9
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
#e1ded9
RGB
225, 222, 217
OKLCh
90.1% 0.007 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
88.6, 0.4, 2.8
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 8% 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 16.8; on black, Lc -86.8. 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 5.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797672 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
#e1ded9
protanopia
#deded9 · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#dfdfd9 · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#dfdfcf · ΔE00 5.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHush Grey at ΔE00 0.478: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hush GreyΔE00 0.478 · #e1ded8
- Prelude to PinkΔE00 0.489 · #e1deda
- Poetic LightΔE00 0.623 · #e2ded8
- SnowfallΔE00 0.639 · #e0deda
- Granular LimestoneΔE00 0.643 · #e3e0da
- SpectralΔE00 0.654 · #dfdcd8
- Pheasant’s EggΔE00 0.659 · #e0dcd7
- House Martin EggsΔE00 0.662 · #e2e0db
- Vista WhiteΔE00 0.672 · #e3dfd9
- GhostedΔE00 0.761 · #e2e0dc
- SeagullΔE00 0.783 · #e0ded8
- Timid LimeΔE00 0.784 · #e4e0da
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.