HueComb

Exclusive Ivory

#e2d8c3

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#e2d8c3

RGB

226, 216, 195

OKLCh

88.5% 0.030 85.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.7, 1.0, 11.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 76 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 24% 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 20.0; on black, Lc -83.4. 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 5.0 and 5.2 and 12.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.84:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.84:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7663 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

#e2d8c3

protanopia

#d9d9c3 · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#dbdbc3 · ΔE00 5.2

tritanopia

#dddd9a · ΔE00 12.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaella Natural White at ΔE00 0.23: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Paella Natural WhiteΔE00 0.23 · #e1d7c2
  • Mission WhiteΔE00 0.368 · #e2d8c2
  • Garlic CloveΔE00 0.545 · #e2d7c1
  • Instant ClassicΔE00 0.672 · #e3dac6
  • Rococo BeigeΔE00 0.707 · #dfd6c1
  • Almond PasteΔE00 0.76 · #e5dbc5
  • Fish BoneΔE00 0.766 · #e4d9c5
  • EiderdownΔE00 0.878 · #e6dbc6
  • Adobe WhiteΔE00 1.009 · #e6dbc4
  • Beige LinenΔE00 1.017 · #e2dac6
  • Half Spanish WhiteΔE00 1.031 · #e6dbc7
  • Sentimental BeigeΔE00 1.044 · #e0d8c5

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