HueComb

Mascarpone

#ece6d4

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

#ece6d4

RGB

236, 230, 212

OKLCh

92.5% 0.025 91.6°

CIELAB (D50)

91.4, -0.1, 9.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 140 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 24% 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 12.3; on black, Lc -91.7. 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 8.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.84:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.84:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7766 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

#ece6d4

protanopia

#e7e7d4 · ΔE00 3.0

deuteranopia

#e8e8d4 · ΔE00 3.1

tritanopia

#e9e9be · ΔE00 8.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBoard & Batten at ΔE00 0.217: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Board & BattenΔE00 0.217 · #ede7d5
  • Antique WhiteΔE00 0.381 · #ece6d5
  • Farm HouseΔE00 0.433 · #eee8d6
  • Always AlmondΔE00 0.443 · #ebe5d2
  • Quarried LimestoneΔE00 0.552 · #ebe6d5
  • Restful WhiteΔE00 0.591 · #eee8d7
  • Light FrostΔE00 0.685 · #ede8d7
  • Eastern WindΔE00 0.707 · #ede6d5
  • Alabaster BeautyΔE00 0.742 · #e9e3d2
  • Diffused LightΔE00 0.789 · #ebe5d5
  • Homoeopathic YellowΔE00 0.81 · #ede7d7
  • Cream DelightΔE00 0.83 · #eae3d0

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