HueComb

Diamond Cut

#e9e9f0

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

#e9e9f0

RGB

233, 233, 240

OKLCh

93.6% 0.009 286.2°

CIELAB (D50)

92.5, 0.9, -3.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 29% 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 10.2; on black, Lc -93.9. 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

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76767c 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

#e9e9f0

protanopia

#e9e9f0 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#e9e9f0 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#e9e9f0 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Frost at ΔE00 0.792: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cool FrostΔE00 0.792 · #e7e6ed
  • Silver PhoenixΔE00 1.13 · #ebecf5
  • Lady’s SlipperΔE00 1.304 · #e3e3ea
  • PenelopeΔE00 1.371 · #e3e3eb
  • Translucent WhiteΔE00 1.421 · #e4e3e9
  • Purple CrystalΔE00 1.473 · #e7e7eb
  • Water IrisΔE00 1.484 · #e2e3eb
  • Violet WhiteΔE00 1.553 · #e2e3e9
  • Sweet FlowerΔE00 1.581 · #e2e2ea
  • Dandelion FloatieΔE00 1.648 · #eae8ec
  • Bright GreyΔE00 1.674 · #ebecf0
  • Iris IsleΔE00 1.691 · #e8e5ec

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