Muscat Blanc
#ebe2cf
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
#ebe2cf
RGB
235, 226, 207
OKLCh
91.5% 0.027 85.7°
CIELAB (D50)
90.2, 0.8, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 116 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 29% 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 14.3; on black, Lc -89.6. 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 11.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7665 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
#ebe2cf
protanopia
#e3e3cf · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#e5e5cf · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#e6e6ac · ΔE00 11.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCurated White at ΔE00 0.221: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Curated WhiteΔE00 0.221 · #eae1ce
- Double ScoopΔE00 0.427 · #ece3cf
- Canyon CliffsΔE00 0.452 · #ece3d1
- Radiant DawnΔE00 0.515 · #ece2ce
- Bleach WhiteΔE00 0.52 · #ebe1ce
- Silky BambooΔE00 0.63 · #eae0cd
- Pogo SandsΔE00 0.668 · #ece4d2
- Tawny DaylilyΔE00 0.688 · #eee4d1
- Asian IvoryΔE00 0.694 · #e8e0cd
- Brandied PearsΔE00 0.78 · #eae2d1
- Primrose WhiteΔE00 0.795 · #ece4d0
- Water ChestnutΔE00 0.846 · #ede4cf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.