Marble Quarry
#e2dcd7
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
#e2dcd7
RGB
226, 220, 215
OKLCh
89.8% 0.009 62.6°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, 1.5, 3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 81 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 14% 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 17.6; on black, Lc -86.0. 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 10.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7671 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
#e2dcd7
protanopia
#ddddd7 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#deded7 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#dfdfc3 · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHint of Mauve at ΔE00 0.545: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hint of MauveΔE00 0.545 · #e1dbd5
- Crushed PeonyΔE00 0.562 · #e4ddd8
- Grim GreyΔE00 0.599 · #e3dcd6
- Pale StarletΔE00 0.652 · #e4ded8
- Durian SmellΔE00 0.987 · #e5e0db
- Country BreezeΔE00 0.994 · #e0d9d5
- Lower LinenΔE00 1.016 · #e0dcd8
- Pheasant’s EggΔE00 1.02 · #e0dcd7
- Ancient StoneΔE00 1.024 · #ded8d4
- White WoodruffΔE00 1.049 · #ded8d2
- Gauzy WhiteΔE00 1.194 · #e3dbd4
- Simple WhiteΔE00 1.203 · #dfd9d2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.