Forgotten Mosque
#e2d9db
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
#e2d9db
RGB
226, 217, 219
OKLCh
89.3% 0.010 2.0°
CIELAB (D50)
87.5, 3.4, 0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 17% 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 18.7; on black, Lc -84.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 15.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7577 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
#e2d9db
protanopia
#dadadb · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#dcdcdb · ΔE00 4.9
tritanopia
#deddbd · ΔE00 15.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmoky Orchid at ΔE00 0.631: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Smoky OrchidΔE00 0.631 · #e1d9dc
- Philanthropist PinkΔE00 0.939 · #e2d9dd
- Wishy-Washy RedΔE00 1.006 · #e1dadd
- Pink OrgandyΔE00 1.063 · #e1d6d8
- Pebble StoneΔE00 1.078 · #e0d9da
- Fairy-NuffΔE00 1.083 · #e2d7da
- Cautious GreyΔE00 1.124 · #dfd8d9
- Pearl PebbleΔE00 1.133 · #ded7da
- CoquetteΔE00 1.168 · #e5dcdc
- Lavender BikiniΔE00 1.361 · #e5d9da
- Rusty PebbleΔE00 1.403 · #e3dce0
- Lower LilacΔE00 1.419 · #e2d6d8
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.