Homoeopathic Mint

#e5ead8

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

#e5ead8

RGB

229, 234, 216

OKLCh

92.8% 0.025 119.5°

CIELAB (D50)

91.9, -4.1, 8.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

37 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 11% 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 11.3; on black, Lc -92.7. 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 8.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.23:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#747969 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

#e5ead8

protanopia

#e9e9d8 · ΔE00 2.3

deuteranopia

#e9e9d8 · ΔE00 2.4

tritanopia

#e8e8e8 · ΔE00 8.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReally Rain at ΔE00 0.768: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Really RainΔE00 0.768 · #e8ecdb
Spring BreezeΔE00 0.954 · #e8ebd9
Just About GreenΔE00 0.999 · #e2e7d3
Chrome GreenΔE00 1.071 · #e7eddd
Enlightened LimeΔE00 1.127 · #e3ead6
MilkweedΔE00 1.183 · #e3e8d9
Bethlehem SuperstarΔE00 1.207 · #eaeeda
Mental NoteΔE00 1.288 · #eaeede
Diminished GreenΔE00 1.39 · #e3e6d6
Rhine FallsΔE00 1.425 · #e3eadb
Reduced GreenΔE00 1.426 · #e7e9d8
White Hamburg GrapesΔE00 1.434 · #e2e6d7

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