Coconut Agony
#ebe8e7
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
#ebe8e7
RGB
235, 232, 231
OKLCh
93.3% 0.004 39.5°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, 0.9, 0.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 68 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 10% 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 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797675 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
#ebe8e7
protanopia
#e8e8e7 · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#e9e9e7 · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#e9e9de · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTimeless Day at ΔE00 0.215: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Timeless DayΔE00 0.215 · #ece9e8
- Heavenly WhiteΔE00 0.513 · #ebe8e6
- Early CrocusΔE00 0.553 · #eae7e7
- Poplar KittenΔE00 0.562 · #ece9e9
- Deep Daigi WhiteΔE00 0.575 · #e9e7e6
- Dazzle MeΔE00 0.785 · #edebea
- Polish WhiteΔE00 1.039 · #e9e8e7
- LatteoΔE00 1.08 · #e8e7e6
- Grey WhisperΔE00 1.122 · #e6e4e4
- NYC Apartment WallΔE00 1.148 · #efeae8
- Minuet WhiteΔE00 1.17 · #e8e6e7
- Lace VeilΔE00 1.171 · #ecebea
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.