HueComb

Whisper of White

#eadbca

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

#eadbca

RGB

234, 219, 202

OKLCh

89.9% 0.028 70.9°

CIELAB (D50)

88.3, 3.3, 10.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 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 36% 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 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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 7.7 and 8.1 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827565 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

#eadbca

protanopia

#ddddca · ΔE00 7.7

deuteranopia

#e0e0ca · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#e3e388 · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChinese Hamster at ΔE00 0.455: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Chinese HamsterΔE00 0.455 · #ebdbca
  • LambskinΔE00 0.458 · #ebdcca
  • DépaysementΔE00 0.681 · #e7d8c7
  • Fragile BeautyΔE00 0.976 · #e7d7c6
  • Bare BoneΔE00 1.046 · #eeddcc
  • Riviera DuneΔE00 1.111 · #e6d9ca
  • Natural LinenΔE00 1.192 · #ecdfcf
  • Dry DuneΔE00 1.198 · #efdfcf
  • Siesta TanΔE00 1.263 · #e9d8c8
  • SkeletonΔE00 1.277 · #ebdecc
  • Chamois ClothΔE00 1.336 · #f0e1d0
  • Calming RetreatΔE00 1.36 · #eee0d1

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