Star Magnolia
#eeefe2
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
#eeefe2
RGB
238, 239, 226
OKLCh
94.8% 0.017 110.3°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, -2.0, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 65 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 8% 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 7.6; on black, Lc -96.7. 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
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#77786c 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
#eeefe2
protanopia
#efefe2 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#efefe2 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#efefe5 · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPearl Onion at ΔE00 0.395: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pearl OnionΔE00 0.395 · #eeefe1
- SublimeΔE00 0.423 · #ecede0
- Hushed WhiteΔE00 0.725 · #f1f2e4
- FrostworkΔE00 0.733 · #eff1e3
- AgelessΔE00 0.765 · #ececdf
- Shattered WhiteΔE00 0.823 · #f1f1e5
- Hemlock BudΔE00 0.992 · #eceedf
- Raffia WhiteΔE00 0.999 · #eeeee3
- CumulusΔE00 1.01 · #f3f3e6
- Creamy GarlicΔE00 1.016 · #ecefe3
- Sterling ShadowΔE00 1.02 · #e9ebde
- Snowfall WhiteΔE00 1.04 · #eeede0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.