HueComb

Platinum

#e5e4e2

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

#e5e4e2

RGB

229, 228, 226

OKLCh

91.9% 0.003 84.6°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, 0.1, 1.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 87 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.4; on black, Lc -90.4. 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

16.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777775 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

#e5e4e2

protanopia

#e4e4e2 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#e4e4e2 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#e4e4df · ΔE00 1.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Morning at ΔE00 0.564: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cold MorningΔE00 0.564 · #e6e5e4
  • TeapotΔE00 0.827 · #e2e2e1
  • LatteoΔE00 0.842 · #e8e7e6
  • Pearl BriteΔE00 0.87 · #e6e6e3
  • Ambience WhiteΔE00 0.918 · #e7e7e6
  • Lilac MuseΔE00 0.991 · #e9e8e5
  • Polish WhiteΔE00 1.022 · #e9e8e7
  • AriaΔE00 1.066 · #e3e4e2
  • Deep Daigi WhiteΔE00 1.073 · #e9e7e6
  • Titanium WhiteΔE00 1.084 · #e4e4e4
  • Glacial IceΔE00 1.086 · #eae9e7
  • Quartz StoneΔE00 1.126 · #e8e8e5

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