HueComb

Ghosted

#e2e0dc

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

#e2e0dc

RGB

226, 224, 220

OKLCh

90.7% 0.006 84.6°

CIELAB (D50)

89.3, 0.2, 2.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 82 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 6% 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 15.7; on black, Lc -88.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787773 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

#e2e0dc

protanopia

#e0e0dc · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#e1e1dc · ΔE00 1.2

tritanopia

#e1e1d6 · ΔE00 3.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFreshwater Pearls at ΔE00 0.223: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Freshwater PearlsΔE00 0.223 · #e3e1dd
  • SnowfallΔE00 0.448 · #e0deda
  • House Martin EggsΔE00 0.484 · #e2e0db
  • Galactic MediatorΔE00 0.598 · #e0dfdb
  • Quiet on the SetΔE00 0.645 · #e4e2dd
  • Prelude to PinkΔE00 0.661 · #e1deda
  • Closet SkeletonsΔE00 0.761 · #e1ded9
  • Spilled CappuccinoΔE00 0.845 · #e4e1de
  • Arctic CottonΔE00 0.885 · #e6e3df
  • Whisper SoftlyΔE00 0.934 · #dfded9
  • Granular LimestoneΔE00 0.994 · #e3e0da
  • SpectralΔE00 1.001 · #dfdcd8

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