Hyper Light Drifter
#eddbda
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
#eddbda
RGB
237, 219, 218
OKLCh
90.6% 0.020 21.4°
CIELAB (D50)
88.9, 6.3, 2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.4; on black, Lc -87.2. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.6 and 9.6 and 25.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837372 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
#eddbda
protanopia
#ddddda · ΔE00 8.6
deuteranopia
#e0e0da · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#e4e491 · ΔE00 25.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSt. Nicholas Beard at ΔE00 0.705: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- St. Nicholas BeardΔE00 0.705 · #eedddd
- Butterfly KissesΔE00 0.8 · #f0dedc
- Diminutive PinkΔE00 0.953 · #f1dede
- Echoes of LoveΔE00 0.976 · #eededd
- VerbenaΔE00 1.009 · #f1dfdf
- Light YouthΔE00 1.037 · #ead7d5
- Reduced RedΔE00 1.156 · #efdedf
- Daring DeceptionΔE00 1.292 · #f0dfe0
- Cottingley FairiesΔE00 1.389 · #eddbd7
- Soft PeachΔE00 1.408 · #eedfde
- Silk SheetsΔE00 1.436 · #efdddf
- Discrete PinkΔE00 1.516 · #ebdbdd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.