HueComb

Cannoli Cream

#edecdb

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

#edecdb

RGB

237, 236, 219

OKLCh

93.9% 0.023 104.1°

CIELAB (D50)

93.1, -1.8, 8.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 78 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 13% 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 9.3; on black, Lc -94.9. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787768 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

#edecdb

protanopia

#ececdb · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#ececdb · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#ececd8 · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlittery Glow at ΔE00 0.416: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Glittery GlowΔE00 0.416 · #eeeddb
  • AncientΔE00 0.547 · #efeedc
  • Amazon MistΔE00 0.582 · #ececdc
  • Coconut AromaΔE00 0.614 · #eeeedd
  • Swiss CreamΔE00 0.621 · #ecead9
  • Whispering RainΔE00 0.642 · #ececda
  • Barely PearΔE00 0.675 · #edebdb
  • Angelic StarletΔE00 0.772 · #ebe9d8
  • Crème VanilleΔE00 0.944 · #f1f0e0
  • Magical StardustΔE00 0.96 · #eaeadb
  • Gorā WhiteΔE00 1.004 · #f0f0e0
  • Vape SmokeΔE00 1.03 · #e8e8d7

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