HueComb

Puffy Pillow

#e7e5de

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

#e7e5de

RGB

231, 229, 222

OKLCh

92.2% 0.010 93.6°

CIELAB (D50)

91.0, -0.2, 3.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 117 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 12.9; on black, Lc -91.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787770 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

#e7e5de

protanopia

#e5e5de · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#e6e6de · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#e6e6d8 · ΔE00 3.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPearly Gates at ΔE00 0.493: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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