HueComb

Coconut Milk

#eeebe2

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

#eeebe2

RGB

238, 235, 226

OKLCh

94.0% 0.012 91.5°

CIELAB (D50)

93.1, -0.1, 4.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 144 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 15% 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 -94.8. 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.
  • 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

#79776f 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

#eeebe2

protanopia

#ebebe2 · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#ecece2 · ΔE00 1.7

tritanopia

#ececd8 · ΔE00 4.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Foam at ΔE00 0.213: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cold FoamΔE00 0.213 · #efece3
  • CottonΔE00 0.434 · #eeebe1
  • Broken WhiteΔE00 0.443 · #eeebe3
  • Silky WhiteΔE00 0.519 · #efebe2
  • Arcade WhiteΔE00 0.52 · #edebe2
  • Luna MoonΔE00 0.58 · #eceae1
  • Greek VillaΔE00 0.643 · #f0ece2
  • Taj MahalΔE00 0.719 · #ede9df
  • Sauna SteamΔE00 0.737 · #edebe1
  • Atrium WhiteΔE00 0.754 · #f1eee4
  • Linen RuffleΔE00 0.757 · #efebe3
  • Solid OpalΔE00 0.769 · #eeeae2

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