Polar Bear
#eae9e0
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
#eae9e0
RGB
234, 233, 224
OKLCh
93.2% 0.012 101.5°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, -0.8, 4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 110 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 8% 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 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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
17.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#78776f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#eae9e0
protanopia
#e9e9e0 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#e9e9e0 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#e9e9dd · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystic Fog at ΔE00 0.438: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mystic FogΔE00 0.438 · #eae9e1
- Diamonds TherapyΔE00 0.48 · #e9e8e0
- White ModerneΔE00 0.496 · #ebeae2
- Luna MoonΔE00 0.579 · #eceae1
- Destroying AngelsΔE00 0.627 · #e9e9e1
- Santa’s BeardΔE00 0.644 · #e9e7de
- Just About WhiteΔE00 0.673 · #e8e8e0
- Arcade WhiteΔE00 0.702 · #edebe2
- Sauna SteamΔE00 0.766 · #edebe1
- Morning BreadΔE00 0.769 · #e7e6de
- GypsumΔE00 0.854 · #eeede4
- Silvery MoonΔE00 0.868 · #e6e5dc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.