HueComb

Disappearing Memories

#eae3e0

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

#eae3e0

RGB

234, 227, 224

OKLCh

92.0% 0.009 44.9°

CIELAB (D50)

90.7, 2.1, 2.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 56 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 20% 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 13.3; on black, Lc -90.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7573 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

#eae3e0

protanopia

#e4e4e0 · ΔE00 3.7

deuteranopia

#e5e5e0 · ΔE00 4.0

tritanopia

#e6e6c9 · ΔE00 11.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSip of Nut Milk at ΔE00 0.502: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sip of Nut MilkΔE00 0.502 · #eae2df
  • French HeirloomΔE00 0.542 · #e9e2e0
  • Winged VictoryΔE00 0.553 · #ebe4e2
  • Hazel BlushΔE00 0.635 · #eae2de
  • ClytemnestraΔE00 0.67 · #e8e2e0
  • Bridal VeilΔE00 0.683 · #e7e1de
  • Whimsical WhiteΔE00 0.797 · #ece4e2
  • Milk and CookiesΔE00 0.84 · #e9e1df
  • Calc SinterΔE00 0.917 · #e7e1dd
  • Head in the SandΔE00 0.97 · #ebe2de
  • BookwormΔE00 0.994 · #ebe3de
  • Canada Goose EggsΔE00 1.016 · #eae2dd

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