HueComb

Varnished Ivory

#e6dccc

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

#e6dccc

RGB

230, 220, 204

OKLCh

89.8% 0.024 79.7°

CIELAB (D50)

88.2, 1.6, 9.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 94 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 25% 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 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.2 and 5.4 and 13.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.47:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.47:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7667 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

#e6dccc

protanopia

#ddddcc · ΔE00 5.2

deuteranopia

#dfdfcc · ΔE00 5.4

tritanopia

#e1e1a5 · ΔE00 13.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPredictable at ΔE00 0.226: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • PredictableΔE00 0.226 · #e5dbcb
  • Divine WhiteΔE00 0.412 · #e6dccd
  • Pale PalominoΔE00 0.472 · #e5dbca
  • White MochaΔE00 0.489 · #e7dccc
  • Ivory MemoriesΔE00 0.525 · #e6ddcd
  • Aged WhiteΔE00 0.59 · #e8decd
  • Vanilla FlowerΔE00 0.673 · #e9dfcf
  • Gentle LambΔE00 0.809 · #e3d9c8
  • Toasted BarleyΔE00 0.821 · #e7ddcb
  • Dry BoneΔE00 0.869 · #eadfce
  • SkullΔE00 0.897 · #e3dac9
  • Moderate WhiteΔE00 0.899 · #e9decf

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