HueComb

Bookworm

#ebe3de

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

#ebe3de

RGB

235, 227, 222

OKLCh

92.1% 0.011 54.5°

CIELAB (D50)

90.8, 2.2, 3.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 64 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 23% 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 13.3; on black, Lc -90.6. 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 12.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7571 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

#ebe3de

protanopia

#e4e4de · ΔE00 4.2

deuteranopia

#e5e5de · ΔE00 4.6

tritanopia

#e7e7c2 · ΔE00 12.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanada Goose Eggs at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Canada Goose EggsΔE00 0.219 · #eae2dd
  • Hazel BlushΔE00 0.533 · #eae2de
  • Newmarket SausageΔE00 0.54 · #eae2dc
  • Head in the SandΔE00 0.772 · #ebe2de
  • Forever FaithfulΔE00 0.84 · #efe6e1
  • Sweet RosesΔE00 0.846 · #eae1dd
  • AimeeΔE00 0.902 · #eee5e1
  • Bistro NapkinΔE00 0.954 · #ece3dc
  • CrystallineΔE00 0.973 · #e9e3de
  • Disappearing MemoriesΔE00 0.994 · #eae3e0
  • Sip of Nut MilkΔE00 1.007 · #eae2df
  • Calc SinterΔE00 1.099 · #e7e1dd

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