Prelude to Pink
#e1deda
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
#e1deda
RGB
225, 222, 218
OKLCh
90.2% 0.006 75.4°
CIELAB (D50)
88.6, 0.5, 2.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 73 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 -86.9. 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 5.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.66:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.66:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797673 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
#e1deda
protanopia
#dededa · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#dfdfda · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#dfdfd0 · ΔE00 5.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpectral at ΔE00 0.451: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SpectralΔE00 0.451 · #dfdcd8
- Closet SkeletonsΔE00 0.489 · #e1ded9
- SnowfallΔE00 0.529 · #e0deda
- Lower LinenΔE00 0.657 · #e0dcd8
- GhostedΔE00 0.661 · #e2e0dc
- Pergament ShredsΔE00 0.716 · #e4e0dc
- Pheasant’s EggΔE00 0.755 · #e0dcd7
- Freshwater PearlsΔE00 0.815 · #e3e1dd
- Spilled CappuccinoΔE00 0.848 · #e4e1de
- House Martin EggsΔE00 0.876 · #e2e0db
- StorksbillΔE00 0.884 · #e5e1dd
- Timid SheepΔE00 0.944 · #e4e0dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.