HueComb

Pegasus

#e8e9e4

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

#e8e9e4

RGB

232, 233, 228

OKLCh

93.2% 0.007 115.7°

CIELAB (D50)

92.2, -1.0, 2.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 101 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.9; on black, Lc -93.2. 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.
  • 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

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767773 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

#e8e9e4

protanopia

#e9e9e4 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#e9e9e4 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#e9e9e7 · ΔE00 1.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilver White at ΔE00 0.216: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Silver WhiteΔE00 0.216 · #e7e8e3
  • Chalk DustΔE00 0.429 · #eaebe6
  • Steam WhiteΔE00 0.474 · #e8e9e5
  • Winsome GreyΔE00 0.507 · #e7e9e4
  • Arctic FoxΔE00 0.643 · #e7e7e2
  • Pacific PearlΔE00 0.679 · #e8eae6
  • Spoonful of SugarΔE00 0.721 · #e7e9e3
  • Ceiling Bright WhiteΔE00 0.765 · #e9ebe7
  • Maritime WhiteΔE00 0.813 · #e5e6e0
  • Cat’s CreamΔE00 0.83 · #e7e7e3
  • Neutral WhiteΔE00 0.855 · #ecede8
  • Misty DawnΔE00 0.869 · #e4e5e0

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