HueComb

Glacial Ice

#eae9e7

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

#eae9e7

RGB

234, 233, 231

OKLCh

93.4% 0.003 84.6°

CIELAB (D50)

92.4, 0.1, 1.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 85 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.5; on black, Lc -93.6. 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.
  • 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

17.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777775 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

#eae9e7

protanopia

#e9e9e7 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#e9e9e7 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#e9e9e4 · ΔE00 1.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolish White at ΔE00 0.55: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Polish WhiteΔE00 0.55 · #e9e8e7
  • Lilac MuseΔE00 0.55 · #e9e8e5
  • PolypropyleneΔE00 0.557 · #eaeae8
  • Mystic WhiteΔE00 0.654 · #ebebe9
  • LatteoΔE00 0.66 · #e8e7e6
  • Lace VeilΔE00 0.676 · #ecebea
  • Ambience WhiteΔE00 0.82 · #e7e7e6
  • Quartz StoneΔE00 0.832 · #e8e8e5
  • Deep Daigi WhiteΔE00 0.88 · #e9e7e6
  • Dazzle MeΔE00 0.935 · #edebea
  • Snow StormΔE00 0.975 · #eeedea
  • Cold MorningΔE00 0.994 · #e6e5e4

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