HueComb

Garlic Clove

#e2d7c1

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#e2d7c1

RGB

226, 215, 193

OKLCh

88.2% 0.032 84.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, 1.2, 12.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 72 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 25% 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 20.5; on black, Lc -82.9. 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 5.5 and 5.7 and 13.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807662 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

#e2d7c1

protanopia

#d8d8c1 · ΔE00 5.5

deuteranopia

#dadac1 · ΔE00 5.7

tritanopia

#dddd92 · ΔE00 13.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaella Natural White at ΔE00 0.506: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Paella Natural WhiteΔE00 0.506 · #e1d7c2
  • Mission WhiteΔE00 0.518 · #e2d8c2
  • Exclusive IvoryΔE00 0.545 · #e2d8c3
  • Steamed ChaiΔE00 0.833 · #e0d4bd
  • Seed PearlΔE00 0.876 · #e6dac4
  • Fish BoneΔE00 0.9 · #e4d9c5
  • Adobe WhiteΔE00 0.966 · #e6dbc4
  • Rococo BeigeΔE00 0.977 · #dfd6c1
  • Almond PasteΔE00 0.994 · #e5dbc5
  • Whirligig GeyserΔE00 0.997 · #dfd4c0
  • EiderdownΔE00 1.005 · #e6dbc6
  • Natural SoapΔE00 1.008 · #e5d8c2

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