HueComb

Humble Blush

#e3cdc2

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

#e3cdc2

RGB

227, 205, 194

OKLCh

86.4% 0.029 48.4°

CIELAB (D50)

84.0, 6.6, 8.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 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 24.3; on black, Lc -78.8. 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 11.1 and 12.0 and 26.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.52:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867369 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

#e3cdc2

protanopia

#d0d0c2 · ΔE00 11.1

deuteranopia

#d4d4c1 · ΔE00 12.0

tritanopia

#d8d848 · ΔE00 26.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncient Ruins at ΔE00 0.833: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ancient RuinsΔE00 0.833 · #e0cac0
  • BizarreΔE00 1.248 · #e7d2c8
  • Ginger ShortbreadΔE00 1.326 · #e3cec6
  • PoutΔE00 1.343 · #e4ccc3
  • Nana’s PearlsΔE00 1.459 · #dfcbc3
  • Bare BeigeΔE00 1.464 · #e8d3c9
  • Sheer BlouseΔE00 1.504 · #e4d0c3
  • Ash PlumΔE00 1.51 · #e8d3c7
  • Blossom TimeΔE00 1.651 · #e5d2c9
  • Honeysuckle DelightΔE00 1.738 · #e8d4c9
  • Cotton & FlaxΔE00 1.764 · #dcc6ba
  • Wheat SeedΔE00 1.767 · #e3d1c8

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