HueComb

Sandcastle

#e5d7c4

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

#e5d7c4

RGB

229, 215, 196

OKLCh

88.5% 0.030 75.7°

CIELAB (D50)

86.7, 2.7, 11.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 28 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 31% 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 7.1 and 7.5 and 16.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827564 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

#e5d7c4

protanopia

#d9d9c4 · ΔE00 7.1

deuteranopia

#dbdbc4 · ΔE00 7.5

tritanopia

#dede86 · ΔE00 16.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOnion White at ΔE00 0.693: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Onion WhiteΔE00 0.693 · #e2d5c2
  • Illusive DreamΔE00 1.099 · #e1d5c2
  • DépaysementΔE00 1.12 · #e7d8c7
  • Serengeti DustΔE00 1.217 · #e7dbc9
  • Grain of RiceΔE00 1.287 · #dfd2c0
  • Maison BlancheΔE00 1.297 · #dfd2bf
  • Cascade BeigeΔE00 1.31 · #e7dbca
  • Canvas LuggageΔE00 1.367 · #e2d7c6
  • Pale GingersnapΔE00 1.398 · #eaddca
  • LambskinΔE00 1.398 · #ebdcca
  • Fragile BeautyΔE00 1.447 · #e7d7c6
  • Whisper of WhiteΔE00 1.463 · #eadbca

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