HueComb

Homoeopathic Red

#ecdbe0

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

#ecdbe0

RGB

236, 219, 224

OKLCh

90.6% 0.020 357.6°

CIELAB (D50)

88.9, 6.7, -0.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 36 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 37% 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 16.3; on black, Lc -87.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.8 and 8.3 and 26.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827377 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

#ecdbe0

protanopia

#dddde0 · ΔE00 7.8

deuteranopia

#e0e0e0 · ΔE00 8.3

tritanopia

#e4e4a0 · ΔE00 26.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDream State at ΔE00 0.746: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dream StateΔE00 0.746 · #efdde1
  • RoselleΔE00 0.919 · #f0dee4
  • Cupid’s RevengeΔE00 0.972 · #eedcdf
  • Wishy-Washy MauveΔE00 1.024 · #eddde4
  • Angelic ChoirΔE00 1.094 · #e9d9dc
  • Unfading DuskΔE00 1.168 · #e7d8de
  • Purple EmulsionΔE00 1.261 · #eadce2
  • Relieved RedΔE00 1.282 · #e9dbdf
  • Discrete PinkΔE00 1.389 · #ebdbdd
  • Pink PosiesΔE00 1.408 · #efdbe2
  • Sweet BiancaΔE00 1.416 · #eedadd
  • Silk SheetsΔE00 1.428 · #efdddf

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