HueComb

Ivory Wedding

#edede4

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

#edede4

RGB

237, 237, 228

OKLCh

94.4% 0.012 106.6°

CIELAB (D50)

93.6, -1.2, 4.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 99 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 6% 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 8.5; on black, Lc -95.7. 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

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#77776f 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

#edede4

protanopia

#edede4 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#edede4 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#edede4 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNew Ream at ΔE00 0.212: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • New ReamΔE00 0.212 · #eeeee5
  • Cuddle DownΔE00 0.422 · #efefe6
  • GypsumΔE00 0.512 · #eeede4
  • Oyster IslandΔE00 0.587 · #efefe5
  • Aspen SnowΔE00 0.632 · #f0f0e7
  • Gallery WhiteΔE00 0.776 · #eaebe3
  • Ice DreamΔE00 0.85 · #eaebe1
  • Raffia WhiteΔE00 0.863 · #eeeee3
  • Grand HeronΔE00 0.882 · #ecece1
  • White ModerneΔE00 0.918 · #ebeae2
  • Destroying AngelsΔE00 0.943 · #e9e9e1
  • Polar BearΔE00 0.955 · #eae9e0

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