Lightning Bolt
#e5ebe6
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
#e5ebe6
RGB
229, 235, 230
OKLCh
93.4% 0.009 150.7°
CIELAB (D50)
92.5, -2.7, 1.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 57 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 8% 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 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 10.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.36:1. 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
#e5ebe6
protanopia
#eaeae6 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#e9e9e6 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#e8e8f7 · ΔE00 10.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMist Spirit at ΔE00 0.633: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mist SpiritΔE00 0.633 · #e4ebe7
- Gossamer WingsΔE00 0.64 · #e8eee9
- Bone DustΔE00 0.678 · #e7ece6
- Distant CloudΔE00 0.698 · #e5eae6
- Dusting PowderΔE00 0.738 · #e7ece8
- GlimmerΔE00 0.836 · #e1e8e3
- Frothy SurfΔE00 0.945 · #e7ebe6
- Sweet ArielΔE00 1.014 · #e5eae3
- Cool ReflectionΔE00 1.063 · #eaf0eb
- Morning SongΔE00 1.268 · #e4ece9
- White BlazeΔE00 1.282 · #e3e7e1
- Clear ViewΔE00 1.293 · #e2eae7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.