HueComb

Distant Landscape

#e1efdd

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

#e1efdd

RGB

225, 239, 221

OKLCh

93.7% 0.028 138.7°

CIELAB (D50)

93.0, -7.2, 7.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 32 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 22% 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 9.4; on black, Lc -94.8. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.0 and 6.3 and 18.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7a6a 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

#e1efdd

protanopia

#ededdd · ΔE00 6.0

deuteranopia

#ebebdd · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#e8e8ff · ΔE00 18.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Focus at ΔE00 0.386: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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