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#e3dbcd
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
#e3dbcd
RGB
227, 219, 205
OKLCh
89.4% 0.021 81.8°
CIELAB (D50)
87.8, 1.1, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 111 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 20% 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 18.3; on black, Lc -85.3. 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 11.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7669 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
#e3dbcd
protanopia
#dcdccd · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#ddddcd · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#dfdfaf · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPacer White at ΔE00 0.632: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pacer WhiteΔE00 0.632 · #e5ddd0
- White SesameΔE00 0.752 · #e4dbce
- AlbescentΔE00 0.796 · #e1dacb
- Carded WoolΔE00 0.833 · #e4ddce
- Neutral GroundΔE00 0.861 · #e2daca
- Noble CreamΔE00 0.879 · #e1dace
- Ivory MemoriesΔE00 0.937 · #e6ddcd
- Powder CakeΔE00 0.991 · #dfd7ca
- Divine WhiteΔE00 0.991 · #e6dccd
- Swiss AlmondΔE00 1.001 · #e4dacc
- Canvas ClothΔE00 1.032 · #e6dfd2
- Designer WhiteΔE00 1.053 · #e7ded1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.