Palladian
#eee9df
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
#eee9df
RGB
238, 233, 223
OKLCh
93.5% 0.014 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
92.5, 0.5, 5.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 149 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 21% 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 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766d 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
#eee9df
protanopia
#eaeadf · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#eaeadf · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#ebebce · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmber Style at ΔE00 0.431: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Umber StyleΔE00 0.431 · #ece7dd
- Yang MistΔE00 0.492 · #ede8dd
- Villa WhiteΔE00 0.499 · #efeae1
- Taj MahalΔE00 0.515 · #ede9df
- Glamorous WhiteΔE00 0.571 · #f0eae0
- Shell WhiteΔE00 0.595 · #f0ebe0
- Vanilla MilkshakeΔE00 0.64 · #f1ece2
- Silky WhiteΔE00 0.711 · #efebe2
- Nilla VanillaΔE00 0.732 · #f1ebe0
- Greek VillaΔE00 0.785 · #f0ece2
- Fading ParchmentΔE00 0.788 · #ece6dc
- Soft WoolΔE00 0.797 · #ece8dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.