Foggy Day
#e7e3db
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
#e7e3db
RGB
231, 227, 219
OKLCh
91.7% 0.012 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
90.4, 0.4, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 115 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 13% 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 13.9; on black, Lc -90.0. 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 6.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a766f 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
#e7e3db
protanopia
#e3e3db · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#e4e4db · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#e5e5ce · ΔE00 6.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Grey at ΔE00 0.518: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain GreyΔE00 0.518 · #e8e3db
- Toque WhiteΔE00 0.544 · #e7e2da
- Origami WhiteΔE00 0.586 · #e5e2da
- Heron PlumeΔE00 0.643 · #e5e1d8
- Zürich WhiteΔE00 0.65 · #e6e1d9
- Snowed InΔE00 0.734 · #e8e5de
- SunbleachedΔE00 0.871 · #e5e0d7
- Dove WhiteΔE00 0.925 · #e6e2d8
- Summer GreyΔE00 0.962 · #e8e4de
- Wild SandΔE00 0.973 · #e7e4de
- Built on SandΔE00 1.012 · #e9e3da
- PampasΔE00 1.071 · #eae4dc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.