HueComb

Dry Bone

#eadfce

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

#eadfce

RGB

234, 223, 206

OKLCh

90.8% 0.026 78.9°

CIELAB (D50)

89.4, 1.8, 9.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 94 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 31% 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 15.7; on black, Lc -88.0. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.6 and 5.9 and 14.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7566 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

#eadfce

protanopia

#e0e0ce · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#e2e2ce · ΔE00 5.9

tritanopia

#e5e5a2 · ΔE00 14.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrispy Crust at ΔE00 0.222: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Crispy CrustΔE00 0.222 · #ebe0cf
  • Little DoveΔE00 0.447 · #ebe0ce
  • Sausage RollΔE00 0.506 · #ebdfcd
  • Vanilla FlowerΔE00 0.516 · #e9dfcf
  • Aged WhiteΔE00 0.556 · #e8decd
  • White MochaΔE00 0.769 · #e7dccc
  • Asian FusionΔE00 0.802 · #ece0cd
  • Bobcat WhiskersΔE00 0.82 · #eadfd0
  • MuscoviteΔE00 0.832 · #e9decb
  • Moderate WhiteΔE00 0.841 · #e9decf
  • Varnished IvoryΔE00 0.869 · #e6dccc
  • Aged ParchmentΔE00 0.886 · #e9ddca

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