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#eee0dd

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

#eee0dd

RGB

238, 224, 221

OKLCh

91.7% 0.016 32.0°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, 4.6, 3.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 62 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 37% 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 14.1; on black, Lc -89.7. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.0 and 7.7 and 21.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807471 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

#eee0dd

protanopia

#e2e2dd · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#e4e4dd · ΔE00 7.7

tritanopia

#e7e7a8 · ΔE00 21.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMussel White at ΔE00 0.639: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mussel WhiteΔE00 0.639 · #f0e2de
  • Wishy-Washy BeigeΔE00 0.642 · #ebdedb
  • Rose CreamΔE00 0.679 · #efe0de
  • MannequinΔE00 0.696 · #eedfdd
  • New YouthΔE00 0.73 · #f0e1df
  • Chantilly LaceΔE00 0.736 · #f1e2de
  • White RussianΔE00 0.871 · #f0e0dc
  • Rosa ViejaΔE00 0.92 · #f0e3df
  • Hint of PinkΔE00 0.932 · #f1e4e1
  • White BeetΔE00 0.946 · #ebdfdd
  • Shattered PorcelainΔE00 0.97 · #eee2e0
  • Pink EmulsionΔE00 1.007 · #f2e4e2

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