White Mecca
#ecf3e1
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
#ecf3e1
RGB
236, 243, 225
OKLCh
95.4% 0.025 124.3°
CIELAB (D50)
94.9, -4.7, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 27 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 19% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.2. 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 12.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737969 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
#ecf3e1
protanopia
#f2f2e1 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#f1f1e1 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#f0f0f7 · ΔE00 12.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnowy Evergreen at ΔE00 0.872: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Snowy EvergreenΔE00 0.872 · #edf2e0
- ClarityΔE00 1.008 · #eaf0e0
- Diluted LimeΔE00 1.136 · #e8efdb
- Hidden JadeΔE00 1.234 · #ebf1e2
- Herb GardenΔE00 1.251 · #e9f3e1
- Morning FrostΔE00 1.326 · #ebf4df
- Aloe EssenceΔE00 1.44 · #ecf1e2
- Chrome GreenΔE00 1.453 · #e7eddd
- Mount EdenΔE00 1.46 · #e7efe0
- Mayfair WhiteΔE00 1.469 · #e6f0de
- Bean SproutΔE00 1.576 · #f3f9e9
- Verde PastelΔE00 1.624 · #edf5e7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.