Coco Malt
#e4dcc9
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
#e4dcc9
RGB
228, 220, 201
OKLCh
89.6% 0.027 87.9°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, 0.5, 10.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 78 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 22% 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 17.9; on black, Lc -85.7. 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 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7665 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
#e4dcc9
protanopia
#ddddc9 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#dedec9 · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#e0e0aa · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesert Plain at ΔE00 0.427: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Desert PlainΔE00 0.427 · #e5ddc9
- Light Hog BristleΔE00 0.454 · #e5ddcb
- Vintage LinenΔE00 0.537 · #e3dcca
- Jewett WhiteΔE00 0.565 · #e6ddca
- Ivory PaperΔE00 0.571 · #e6deca
- Beige LinenΔE00 0.605 · #e2dac6
- Instant ClassicΔE00 0.678 · #e3dac6
- Lime ChalkΔE00 0.765 · #e5ddc8
- Raw SilkΔE00 0.765 · #e1d9c7
- Light BeigeΔE00 0.797 · #e5deca
- Frankly EarnestΔE00 0.823 · #e2dbca
- Asian IvoryΔE00 0.897 · #e8e0cd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.