HueComb

Chrome

#e1dfe1

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

#e1dfe1

RGB

225, 223, 225

OKLCh

90.6% 0.003 325.6°

CIELAB (D50)

89.0, 1.0, -0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 51 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.1; on black, Lc -87.6. 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.
  • 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

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.84:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.84:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787678 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e1dfe1

protanopia

#dfdfe1 · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#e0e0e1 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#e0e0db · ΔE00 3.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Silk at ΔE00 0.498: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Soft SilkΔE00 0.498 · #e1dfe2
  • Christmas SilverΔE00 0.507 · #e1dfe0
  • Lavender LaceΔE00 0.663 · #dfdde0
  • Lavender BreezeΔE00 0.706 · #e4e1e3
  • Tripoli WhiteΔE00 0.887 · #e5e3e5
  • Orchid BlossomΔE00 0.898 · #e4e1e4
  • Mystical MistΔE00 0.971 · #e5e2e3
  • ArdcoatΔE00 1.08 · #e2dedf
  • Wallflower WhiteΔE00 1.086 · #e4e3e6
  • White-CollarΔE00 1.125 · #dedbde
  • Royal SilverΔE00 1.16 · #e0dddd
  • Diamond StudΔE00 1.234 · #dcdbdc

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.