Sugar Quill
#ebe5d7
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
#ebe5d7
RGB
235, 229, 215
OKLCh
92.3% 0.020 87.5°
CIELAB (D50)
91.1, 0.3, 7.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 166 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 22% 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 12.7; on black, Lc -91.2. 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 8.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766a 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
#ebe5d7
protanopia
#e6e6d7 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#e7e7d7 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#e8e8c2 · ΔE00 8.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDry Sand at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dry SandΔE00 0.219 · #eae4d6
- Pale LinenΔE00 0.404 · #ebe5d6
- Marzipan WhiteΔE00 0.412 · #ebe5d8
- OstrichΔE00 0.438 · #e9e3d5
- Old Yellow BricksΔE00 0.449 · #ece6d7
- White SilenceΔE00 0.536 · #ebe6d8
- HeliumΔE00 0.566 · #eae5d8
- NacreΔE00 0.658 · #e8e2d4
- Elusive WhiteΔE00 0.733 · #e8e3d6
- Historic WhiteΔE00 0.738 · #ebe6d7
- EdelweissΔE00 0.749 · #eee8d9
- Jelly YoghurtΔE00 0.789 · #ede6d9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.