Hourglass
#e5e0d5
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
#e5e0d5
RGB
229, 224, 213
OKLCh
90.8% 0.016 86.4°
CIELAB (D50)
89.3, 0.4, 6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 114 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 15% 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 15.6; on black, Lc -88.1. 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 7.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.95:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.95:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766d 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
#e5e0d5
protanopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#e2e2c4 · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAugust Moon at ΔE00 0.222: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- August MoonΔE00 0.222 · #e6e1d6
- White CoffeeΔE00 0.575 · #e6e0d4
- Crystal HazeΔE00 0.601 · #e7e2d6
- Spun WoolΔE00 0.611 · #e3ded4
- BonaireΔE00 0.651 · #e6e2d7
- Oyster HazeΔE00 0.712 · #e4ded2
- Dove WhiteΔE00 0.72 · #e6e2d8
- AragoniteΔE00 0.745 · #e4e0d4
- Cotton TuftΔE00 0.758 · #e5e1d5
- White HeronΔE00 0.81 · #e7e1d7
- Texan AngelΔE00 0.813 · #e2ddd1
- Echo ValleyΔE00 0.832 · #e6e2d6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.