HueComb

Morning Mist

#e5edf1

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

#e5edf1

RGB

229, 237, 241

OKLCh

94.1% 0.010 228.9°

CIELAB (D50)

93.2, -2.2, -2.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 28 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 28% 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 9.0; on black, Lc -95.2. 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 9.0 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#71787b 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

#e5edf1

protanopia

#ececf1 · ΔE00 4.0

deuteranopia

#ebebf1 · ΔE00 4.3

tritanopia

#e9e9ff · ΔE00 9.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Illusion at ΔE00 1.075: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Sweet IllusionΔE00 1.075 · #e0e8ec
  • Calla LilyΔE00 1.082 · #e4eaed
  • Himalaya PeaksΔE00 1.128 · #e2eaf0
  • Out ColdΔE00 1.149 · #e2ecf2
  • Morning HazeΔE00 1.165 · #e0e8ed
  • BlizzardΔE00 1.229 · #e5ebed
  • Bellflower BlueΔE00 1.26 · #e1e9ef
  • Cloud AbyssΔE00 1.293 · #dfe7eb
  • Powder WhiteΔE00 1.311 · #ebf1f5
  • Plaster CastΔE00 1.356 · #e1eaec
  • Diamond LightΔE00 1.367 · #dfe7ec
  • Distant Wind ChimeΔE00 1.468 · #eaeff2

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