Albescent
#e1dacb
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
#e1dacb
RGB
225, 218, 203
OKLCh
89.0% 0.022 85.9°
CIELAB (D50)
87.3, 0.6, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 102 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 18% 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 19.0; on black, Lc -84.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7669 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
#e1dacb
protanopia
#dbdbcb · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#dcdccb · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#ddddb1 · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTiger Claw at ΔE00 0.402: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tiger ClawΔE00 0.402 · #e1daca
- Neutral GroundΔE00 0.547 · #e2daca
- Stretched CanvasΔE00 0.625 · #dfd8c8
- Carded WoolΔE00 0.68 · #e4ddce
- Last StrawΔE00 0.796 · #e3dbcd
- Quail EggΔE00 0.812 · #e3ddce
- Frankly EarnestΔE00 0.817 · #e2dbca
- Catacomb BoneΔE00 0.823 · #e2dccc
- ArrowrooteΔE00 0.997 · #e4decf
- EarthlingΔE00 1.008 · #ded6c7
- Canvas TanΔE00 1.023 · #ddd6c6
- Hint of CreamΔE00 1.04 · #e4ded0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.