Calcium Rock
#eee9d9
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
#eee9d9
RGB
238, 233, 217
OKLCh
93.4% 0.022 92.5°
CIELAB (D50)
92.4, -0.3, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 153 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 23% 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 10.5; on black, Lc -93.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7768 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#eee9d9
protanopia
#eaead9 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#eaead9 · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#ebebc7 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Quartz at ΔE00 0.214: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pale QuartzΔE00 0.214 · #efeada
- Pearly SwirlyΔE00 0.385 · #eee9d8
- Light FrostΔE00 0.451 · #ede8d7
- Milk PaintΔE00 0.505 · #efe9d9
- Nesting DoveΔE00 0.531 · #eeeada
- Ivory SteamΔE00 0.566 · #f0eada
- Restful WhiteΔE00 0.585 · #eee8d7
- Frank Lloyd WhiteΔE00 0.632 · #efebdb
- Homoeopathic YellowΔE00 0.634 · #ede7d7
- Cotton RidgeΔE00 0.69 · #f1ebdb
- Buttery WhiteΔE00 0.715 · #f1ebda
- EdelweissΔE00 0.728 · #eee8d9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.