HueComb

Crepuscular

#e7dcce

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

#e7dcce

RGB

231, 220, 206

OKLCh

90.0% 0.022 74.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.4, 2.2, 8.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 72 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 27% 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 17.3; on black, Lc -86.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.7 and 6.1 and 14.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7569 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

#e7dcce

protanopia

#ddddce · ΔE00 5.7

deuteranopia

#dfdfce · ΔE00 6.1

tritanopia

#e2e2a3 · ΔE00 14.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCinnamon Cake at ΔE00 0.225: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cinnamon CakeΔE00 0.225 · #e8ddcf
  • Light Shetland LaceΔE00 0.43 · #e7dccf
  • Moderate WhiteΔE00 0.603 · #e9decf
  • Swiss AlmondΔE00 0.696 · #e4dacc
  • Divine WhiteΔE00 0.746 · #e6dccd
  • Bobcat WhiskersΔE00 0.778 · #eadfd0
  • South PeakΔE00 0.813 · #eadfd2
  • White MochaΔE00 0.837 · #e7dccc
  • White SesameΔE00 0.973 · #e4dbce
  • Designer WhiteΔE00 0.998 · #e7ded1
  • Maybe MushroomΔE00 1.075 · #e2d8cb
  • Riviera DuneΔE00 1.08 · #e6d9ca

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