HueComb

Blanco

#ebeae5

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

#ebeae5

RGB

235, 234, 229

OKLCh

93.6% 0.007 97.4°

CIELAB (D50)

92.7, -0.3, 2.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 115 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 6% 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 10.0; on black, Lc -94.1. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.20:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787772 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

#ebeae5

protanopia

#eaeae5 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#eaeae5 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#eaeae2 · ΔE00 1.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhipped Coconut Cream at ΔE00 0.427: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Whipped Coconut CreamΔE00 0.427 · #edece7
  • Gin TonicΔE00 0.506 · #ecebe5
  • Commercial WhiteΔE00 0.62 · #edece6
  • White SailΔE00 0.677 · #ebebe7
  • Metropolitan WhiteΔE00 0.707 · #eeece7
  • Floral ScentΔE00 0.81 · #eeede9
  • Silver FeatherΔE00 0.821 · #edebe7
  • Signal WhiteΔE00 0.831 · #ecece6
  • White MinkΔE00 0.85 · #efeee9
  • Faded GreyΔE00 0.856 · #eae8e4
  • Arctic FoxΔE00 0.87 · #e7e7e2
  • Melting IciclesΔE00 0.939 · #ecebe4

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