HueComb

Perfume Cloud

#e2c9ce

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

#e2c9ce

RGB

226, 201, 206

OKLCh

85.8% 0.029 4.1°

CIELAB (D50)

83.2, 9.7, 0.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 36% 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 25.6; on black, Lc -77.5. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.8 and 12.1 and 34.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887176 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

#e2c9ce

protanopia

#ccccce · ΔE00 10.8

deuteranopia

#d1d1cd · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#d6d653 · ΔE00 34.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Pink at ΔE00 0.715: 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.