Silver Phoenix
#ebecf5
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
#ebecf5
RGB
235, 236, 245
OKLCh
94.5% 0.012 281.1°
CIELAB (D50)
93.5, 0.9, -4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.5; on black, Lc -95.8. 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
1.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#75767e 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
#ebecf5
protanopia
#ececf5 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#ececf5 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#ececf8 · ΔE00 1.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiamond Cut at ΔE00 1.13: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Diamond CutΔE00 1.13 · #e9e9f0
- Whisper BlueΔE00 1.388 · #e5e8f2
- Coconut WhiteΔE00 1.517 · #e9edf6
- Lavender SyrupΔE00 1.625 · #e6e6f1
- Cool FrostΔE00 1.748 · #e7e6ed
- Alpine GoatΔE00 1.826 · #f1f2f8
- Water IrisΔE00 2.002 · #e2e3eb
- PenelopeΔE00 2.004 · #e3e3eb
- Boysenberry ShadowΔE00 2.076 · #f1f3f9
- Ghostly TunaΔE00 2.088 · #e2e6ef
- Lady’s SlipperΔE00 2.138 · #e3e3ea
- White LavenderΔE00 2.165 · #e1e2eb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.