Blushing Coconut
#ebd5ca
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
#ebd5ca
RGB
235, 213, 202
OKLCh
88.8% 0.029 48.4°
CIELAB (D50)
86.9, 6.6, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.8; on black, Lc -83.7. 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 11.0 and 11.9 and 26.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.41:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867369 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
#ebd5ca
protanopia
#d8d8ca · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#dcdcc9 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#e0e056 · ΔE00 26.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBare Beige at ΔE00 0.696: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bare BeigeΔE00 0.696 · #e8d3c9
- Honeysuckle DelightΔE00 0.853 · #e8d4c9
- Ash PlumΔE00 0.861 · #e8d3c7
- BizarreΔE00 0.875 · #e7d2c8
- Ole PinkΔE00 0.9 · #ebd5cc
- Seaside VillaΔE00 1.037 · #e9d5c9
- Antique PearlΔE00 1.089 · #ebd7cb
- Coral CreamΔE00 1.366 · #ead6ce
- Blushing BrideΔE00 1.469 · #eedad1
- Blossom TimeΔE00 1.485 · #e5d2c9
- Touch of TanΔE00 1.585 · #eed9d1
- Winter PeachΔE00 1.748 · #ebd9d0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.