HueComb

White Pearl

#ede1d1

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

#ede1d1

RGB

237, 225, 209

OKLCh

91.5% 0.025 75.3°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, 2.3, 9.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 88 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 14.3; on black, Lc -89.5. 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 6.2 and 6.5 and 15.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807567 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

#ede1d1

protanopia

#e2e2d1 · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#e5e5d1 · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#e7e7a1 · ΔE00 15.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlazed Pears at ΔE00 0.586: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Glazed PearsΔE00 0.586 · #efe3d2
  • Natural LinenΔE00 0.617 · #ecdfcf
  • Bobcat WhiskersΔE00 0.693 · #eadfd0
  • Crispy CrustΔE00 0.783 · #ebe0cf
  • Platinum Ogon KoiΔE00 0.804 · #ece1d3
  • Southwestern SandΔE00 0.806 · #ede0ce
  • Battered SausageΔE00 0.832 · #ede2d4
  • Moderate WhiteΔE00 0.86 · #e9decf
  • Dry BoneΔE00 0.889 · #eadfce
  • Sausage RollΔE00 0.941 · #ebdfcd
  • SkeletonΔE00 1.019 · #ebdecc
  • HectoriteΔE00 1.019 · #f0e4d2

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