Distant Cloud
#e5eae6
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
#e5eae6
RGB
229, 234, 230
OKLCh
93.2% 0.007 151.9°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, -2.3, 1.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 66 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 7% 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 10.7; on black, Lc -93.3. 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 8.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737874 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
#e5eae6
protanopia
#e9e9e6 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#e9e9e6 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#e8e8f5 · ΔE00 8.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDusting Powder at ΔE00 0.429: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dusting PowderΔE00 0.429 · #e7ece8
- Frothy SurfΔE00 0.688 · #e7ebe6
- Lightning BoltΔE00 0.698 · #e5ebe6
- Silent WhiteΔE00 0.914 · #e3e7e4
- Mist SpiritΔE00 0.93 · #e4ebe7
- Snail Trail SilverΔE00 0.993 · #e9eeeb
- Bone DustΔE00 1.007 · #e7ece6
- Windy SkyΔE00 1.014 · #e8ebe7
- Coastal FogΔE00 1.019 · #e5e8e4
- Feather WhiteΔE00 1.038 · #e7eae5
- Gossamer WingsΔE00 1.041 · #e8eee9
- Notebook PaperΔE00 1.077 · #e8ebe6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.