HueComb

Cauliflower

#ebe5d0

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

#ebe5d0

RGB

235, 229, 208

OKLCh

92.1% 0.029 93.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.0, -0.5, 11.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 79 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 24% 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 13.0; on black, Lc -91.0. 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 8.0 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7764 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

#ebe5d0

protanopia

#e6e6d0 · ΔE00 3.0

deuteranopia

#e7e7d0 · ΔE00 3.1

tritanopia

#e8e8ba · ΔE00 8.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isXiàng Yá Bái Ivory at ΔE00 0.218: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Xiàng Yá Bái IvoryΔE00 0.218 · #ece6d1
  • Abbey WhiteΔE00 0.405 · #ece6d0
  • Instant ReliefΔE00 0.435 · #ede7d2
  • Baby ArtichokeΔE00 0.439 · #e9e3ce
  • Desert SmogΔE00 0.559 · #e9e4cf
  • Elderberry WhiteΔE00 0.666 · #eae5cf
  • ChanoyuΔE00 0.723 · #eee8d2
  • Always AlmondΔE00 0.729 · #ebe5d2
  • Ambrosia Coffee CakeΔE00 1.039 · #eee9d3
  • Cream DelightΔE00 1.041 · #eae3d0
  • MascarponeΔE00 1.136 · #ece6d4
  • Primrose WhiteΔE00 1.14 · #ece4d0

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