HueComb

Tofu

#e6e5d6

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

#e6e5d6

RGB

230, 229, 214

OKLCh

91.9% 0.020 103.7°

CIELAB (D50)

90.7, -1.6, 7.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 76 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 10% 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 13.4; on black, Lc -90.5. 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

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#78776a 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

#e6e5d6

protanopia

#e5e5d6 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#e5e5d6 · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#e5e5d3 · ΔE00 1.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarden Pebble at ΔE00 0.563: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Garden PebbleΔE00 0.563 · #e4e4d5
  • Carrara MarbleΔE00 0.566 · #e8e7d7
  • Satin LinenΔE00 0.617 · #e6e4d4
  • Ivory LashesΔE00 0.624 · #e6e6d8
  • Pale Green TeaΔE00 0.984 · #e2e2d2
  • Twilight TwistΔE00 0.989 · #e5e6d7
  • Divine CreamΔE00 1.005 · #e3e2d5
  • Prairie WindsΔE00 1.042 · #e8e6d9
  • Vape SmokeΔE00 1.103 · #e8e8d7
  • Sand PuffsΔE00 1.133 · #e6e5d3
  • Magical StardustΔE00 1.148 · #eaeadb
  • Paramount WhiteΔE00 1.15 · #e4e2d5

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