Merino
#e1dbd0
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
#e1dbd0
RGB
225, 219, 208
OKLCh
89.3% 0.016 82.8°
CIELAB (D50)
87.7, 0.7, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 91 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 18.4; on black, Lc -85.1. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766c 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
#e1dbd0
protanopia
#dcdcd0 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#ddddd0 · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#dedebb · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Luxe at ΔE00 0.504: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White LuxeΔE00 0.504 · #e2dcd2
- Light Sandy DayΔE00 0.54 · #e1dacf
- Noble CreamΔE00 0.602 · #e1dace
- Egret WhiteΔE00 0.621 · #dfd9cf
- Aesthetic WhiteΔE00 0.645 · #e3ddd3
- Oyster HazeΔE00 0.787 · #e4ded2
- PolishedΔE00 0.8 · #ded8ce
- Texan AngelΔE00 0.845 · #e2ddd1
- Taupe TeaseΔE00 0.858 · #e0d9cf
- Spun WoolΔE00 0.87 · #e3ded4
- Quiet InterludeΔE00 0.917 · #ddd7cc
- Petal SmokeΔE00 0.928 · #e2dcd3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.