HueComb

Sweet and Sassy

#e1c9d1

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

#e1c9d1

RGB

225, 201, 209

OKLCh

85.8% 0.029 355.5°

CIELAB (D50)

83.2, 9.7, -0.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 34% 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 25.6; on black, Lc -77.5. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.3 and 11.0 and 34.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877178 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

#e1c9d1

protanopia

#ccccd1 · ΔE00 10.3

deuteranopia

#d0d0d0 · ΔE00 11.0

tritanopia

#d5d565 · ΔE00 34.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKellie Belle at ΔE00 0.637: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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