Shaving Cream
#e1e5e5
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
#e1e5e5
RGB
225, 229, 229
OKLCh
91.9% 0.004 197.1°
CIELAB (D50)
90.6, -1.4, -0.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 56 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 13.4; on black, Lc -90.5. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747777 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
#e1e5e5
protanopia
#e5e5e5 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#e4e4e5 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#e3e3f1 · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRarified Air at ΔE00 0.509: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rarified AirΔE00 0.509 · #e1e6e6
- White LakeΔE00 0.616 · #e2e7e7
- ZirconΔE00 0.689 · #dee3e3
- Ice SculptureΔE00 0.762 · #e1e6e5
- Mauve WhiteΔE00 0.8 · #dee3e4
- Etched GlassΔE00 0.862 · #dde2e2
- Ski SlopeΔE00 1.014 · #e1e5e3
- Swirling WaterΔE00 1.044 · #e6e9e9
- Grey GlimpseΔE00 1.045 · #e0e4e2
- Winter DayΔE00 1.119 · #e3e7e9
- Beach WindΔE00 1.125 · #dce1e2
- Moon GardenΔE00 1.143 · #dfe5e4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.