Homoeopathic Green
#e1ebd8
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
#e1ebd8
RGB
225, 235, 216
OKLCh
92.7% 0.027 129.8°
CIELAB (D50)
91.9, -6.0, 8.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 27 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 15% 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 11.4; on black, Lc -92.7. 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 16.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717a69 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
#e1ebd8
protanopia
#eaead8 · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#e8e8d8 · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#e6e6f6 · ΔE00 16.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGratitude at ΔE00 0.217: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GratitudeΔE00 0.217 · #e0ead7
- MintedΔE00 0.41 · #e0ead8
- Lime GlowΔE00 0.433 · #e1ecd9
- Hollywood AsparagusΔE00 0.915 · #dee7d4
- Lily PondΔE00 0.94 · #deead8
- Mayfair WhiteΔE00 1.148 · #e6f0de
- Winter ShamrockΔE00 1.181 · #e3efdd
- Chilled MintΔE00 1.197 · #e4efde
- Establish MintΔE00 1.264 · #e2eddd
- Lower LimeΔE00 1.294 · #e6f1de
- Enlightened LimeΔE00 1.305 · #e3ead6
- FrosteeΔE00 1.313 · #dbe5d2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.