HueComb

Washed Dollar

#e1e3d7

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

#e1e3d7

RGB

225, 227, 215

OKLCh

91.1% 0.016 114.4°

CIELAB (D50)

89.8, -2.3, 5.6

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 14.8; on black, Lc -89.0. 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

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76786d 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

#e1e3d7

protanopia

#e3e3d7 · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#e2e2d7 · ΔE00 1.0

tritanopia

#e2e2dd · ΔE00 3.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIce Palace at ΔE00 0.451: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ice PalaceΔE00 0.451 · #e2e4d7
  • Glacier ValleyΔE00 0.492 · #e2e3d7
  • Timid GreenΔE00 0.518 · #e1e2d6
  • Lily of the Valley WhiteΔE00 0.61 · #e2e3d6
  • WisdomΔE00 0.669 · #e2e3d8
  • Sand GrainΔE00 0.726 · #e3e4d9
  • Olive Conquering WhiteΔE00 0.77 · #e4e5d8
  • Lincolnshire SausageΔE00 0.776 · #e3e6da
  • Whispering WaterfallΔE00 0.879 · #e3e6db
  • Light SprinkleΔE00 0.992 · #e3e3d7
  • Poplar WhiteΔE00 1.021 · #dfe3d8
  • Fish CevicheΔE00 1.045 · #e1e1d5

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