HueComb

Delicate Bliss

#ede0d5

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

#ede0d5

RGB

237, 224, 213

OKLCh

91.4% 0.021 62.8°

CIELAB (D50)

90.0, 3.2, 7.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 72 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 36% 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 14.6; on black, Lc -89.2. 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 6.8 and 7.2 and 17.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.22:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.22:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80756b 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

#ede0d5

protanopia

#e2e2d5 · ΔE00 6.8

deuteranopia

#e4e4d5 · ΔE00 7.2

tritanopia

#e7e7a2 · ΔE00 17.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Dyed Blond at ΔE00 0.498: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink Dyed BlondΔE00 0.498 · #ecdfd5
  • Sea SaltΔE00 0.512 · #eee1d7
  • Dallas DustΔE00 0.528 · #ece0d6
  • Siamese KittenΔE00 0.572 · #efe1d5
  • Grain WhiteΔE00 0.768 · #efe3d8
  • Almond IcingΔE00 0.823 · #efe3d9
  • Victorian PearlΔE00 0.834 · #f1e3d8
  • Toasted MarshmallowΔE00 0.857 · #efe0d4
  • SablewoodΔE00 0.934 · #ecdfd6
  • Merlin’s BeardΔE00 1.03 · #efe2d9
  • Polite WhiteΔE00 1.111 · #e9ddd4
  • Heavenly AromasΔE00 1.132 · #eedfd5

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