Peace & Quiet
#e0dac8
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
#e0dac8
RGB
224, 218, 200
OKLCh
88.8% 0.025 91.6°
CIELAB (D50)
87.2, -0.1, 9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 70 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 16% 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 19.3; on black, Lc -84.2. 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 8.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7766 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
#e0dac8
protanopia
#dbdbc8 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#dcdcc8 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#ddddb2 · ΔE00 8.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStonewashed at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- StonewashedΔE00 0.69 · #ddd7c5
- Vintage LinenΔE00 0.712 · #e3dcca
- Salisbury StoneΔE00 0.717 · #ddd8c6
- Frankly EarnestΔE00 0.77 · #e2dbca
- Fossil StoneΔE00 0.8 · #e3ddcc
- Salsify WhiteΔE00 0.898 · #ded8c4
- Catacomb BoneΔE00 0.919 · #e2dccc
- Cosy CreamΔE00 0.996 · #e0dbc7
- Winter FrostΔE00 1.003 · #e4decd
- Raw SilkΔE00 1.014 · #e1d9c7
- Tiger ClawΔE00 1.037 · #e1daca
- Sentimental BeigeΔE00 1.046 · #e0d8c5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.