HueComb

Apollo Landing

#e5e5e1

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

#e5e5e1

RGB

229, 229, 225

OKLCh

92.1% 0.005 106.5°

CIELAB (D50)

90.9, -0.5, 2.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 103 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.1; on black, Lc -90.8. 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

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777773 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

#e5e5e1

protanopia

#e5e5e1 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#e5e5e1 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#e5e5e1 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCat’s Cream at ΔE00 0.436: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cat’s CreamΔE00 0.436 · #e7e7e3
  • Pearl BriteΔE00 0.54 · #e6e6e3
  • Arctic FoxΔE00 0.634 · #e7e7e2
  • FelicityΔE00 0.681 · #e5e4df
  • Beryl PearlΔE00 0.714 · #e2e3df
  • Misty DawnΔE00 0.749 · #e4e5e0
  • Quartz StoneΔE00 0.826 · #e8e8e5
  • Night WhiteΔE00 0.883 · #e1e1dd
  • Silver WhiteΔE00 0.948 · #e7e8e3
  • Steam WhiteΔE00 0.97 · #e8e9e5
  • Willow SpringsΔE00 1.035 · #e7e6e0
  • Lilac MuseΔE00 1.054 · #e9e8e5

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