Olive Conquering White
#e4e5d8
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
#e4e5d8
RGB
228, 229, 216
OKLCh
91.8% 0.017 110.3°
CIELAB (D50)
90.6, -2.0, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 58 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 9% 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 13.6; on black, Lc -90.3. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#77786c 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
#e4e5d8
protanopia
#e5e5d8 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#e5e5d8 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#e5e5db · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLily of the Valley White at ΔE00 0.441: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lily of the Valley WhiteΔE00 0.441 · #e2e3d6
- Ice PalaceΔE00 0.556 · #e2e4d7
- Glacier ValleyΔE00 0.584 · #e2e3d7
- Ivory LashesΔE00 0.652 · #e6e6d8
- Timid GreenΔE00 0.759 · #e1e2d6
- Light SprinkleΔE00 0.765 · #e3e3d7
- Washed DollarΔE00 0.77 · #e1e3d7
- Twilight TwistΔE00 0.806 · #e5e6d7
- Sand GrainΔE00 0.836 · #e3e4d9
- WisdomΔE00 0.91 · #e2e3d8
- Garden PebbleΔE00 0.913 · #e4e4d5
- Lincolnshire SausageΔE00 1.03 · #e3e6da
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.