Silence
#eaede5
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
#eaede5
RGB
234, 237, 229
OKLCh
94.2% 0.011 123.5°
CIELAB (D50)
93.3, -2.1, 3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 68 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 6% 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 8.9; on black, Lc -95.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757871 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
#eaede5
protanopia
#edede5 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#ecece5 · ΔE00 1.6
tritanopia
#ececee · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCalm Breeze at ΔE00 0.213: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Calm BreezeΔE00 0.213 · #e9ece4
- MinimalisticΔE00 0.483 · #e9ece5
- Crème FraîcheΔE00 0.552 · #eceee6
- Green GlimpseΔE00 0.764 · #e7eae3
- Sealskin ShadowΔE00 0.911 · #e9ece6
- FogtownΔE00 0.912 · #eef0e7
- Hurricane MistΔE00 0.927 · #ebeee8
- Tidal MistΔE00 1.026 · #e5e9e1
- Gallery WhiteΔE00 1.036 · #eaebe3
- Simply WhiteΔE00 1.056 · #ebede7
- High Hide WhiteΔE00 1.157 · #eaebe4
- Hydrangea FloretΔE00 1.243 · #e6eae0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.