HueComb

Bridal Scent

#e5d3cc

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

#e5d3cc

RGB

229, 211, 204

OKLCh

88.0% 0.022 42.6°

CIELAB (D50)

85.9, 5.6, 5.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 33% 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 21.3; on black, Lc -82.0. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.1 and 9.9 and 23.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.52:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.52:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83736d 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

#e5d3cc

protanopia

#d5d5cc · ΔE00 9.1

deuteranopia

#d8d8cc · ΔE00 9.9

tritanopia

#dcdc7d · ΔE00 23.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlossom Time at ΔE00 0.93: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Blossom TimeΔE00 0.93 · #e5d2c9
  • China SilkΔE00 1.034 · #e3d1cc
  • Wheat SeedΔE00 1.055 · #e3d1c8
  • Crushed OutΔE00 1.064 · #e0cfc8
  • Coral CreamΔE00 1.113 · #ead6ce
  • Dusky SandΔE00 1.196 · #e1cec7
  • Sugar BerryΔE00 1.247 · #e3d4cd
  • Pandora GreyΔE00 1.367 · #e3d4cf
  • RomeoΔE00 1.398 · #e3d2ce
  • MorganiteΔE00 1.421 · #dfcec6
  • Pink MarbleΔE00 1.468 · #e5d0ca
  • Lip GlossΔE00 1.472 · #dfcdc7

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