Fish Ceviche
#e1e1d5
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
#e1e1d5
RGB
225, 225, 213
OKLCh
90.6% 0.016 106.7°
CIELAB (D50)
89.3, -1.6, 5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 63 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 15.7; on black, Lc -88.0. 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
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#77776d 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
#e1e1d5
protanopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Sprinkle at ΔE00 0.444: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light SprinkleΔE00 0.444 · #e3e3d7
- Timid GreenΔE00 0.527 · #e1e2d6
- Glacier ValleyΔE00 0.635 · #e2e3d7
- Divine CreamΔE00 0.658 · #e3e2d5
- Reserved BeigeΔE00 0.697 · #e2e1d6
- WisdomΔE00 0.741 · #e2e3d8
- Faded ForestΔE00 0.752 · #e3e2d7
- Lily of the Valley WhiteΔE00 0.767 · #e2e3d6
- Cotton WhiteΔE00 0.863 · #e4e3d8
- Sand GrainΔE00 0.883 · #e3e4d9
- Gulf BreezeΔE00 0.936 · #ddded3
- Nonchalant WhiteΔE00 0.988 · #deddd1
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.