HueComb

Prairie Winds

#e8e6d9

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

#e8e6d9

RGB

232, 230, 217

OKLCh

92.3% 0.018 99.6°

CIELAB (D50)

91.2, -1.0, 6.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 113 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 12.6; on black, Lc -91.4. 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.
  • 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

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79776b 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

#e8e6d9

protanopia

#e6e6d9 · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#e7e7d9 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#e7e7d2 · ΔE00 3.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrilliant Yellow at ΔE00 0.538: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Brilliant YellowΔE00 0.538 · #e8e5d8
  • Clear SandΔE00 0.574 · #eae7da
  • Enduring IceΔE00 0.701 · #ebe8db
  • Fresh LinenΔE00 0.749 · #ebe8da
  • Paramount WhiteΔE00 0.879 · #e4e2d5
  • Prismatic PearlΔE00 0.948 · #eae8dd
  • Large Wild ConvolvulusΔE00 0.951 · #e4e2d6
  • Swallow-Tailed MothΔE00 1.007 · #ece9dd
  • China WhiteΔE00 1.026 · #eae6d9
  • Stocking WhiteΔE00 1.029 · #e9e5d8
  • BerylloniteΔE00 1.032 · #e9e5d7
  • TofuΔE00 1.042 · #e6e5d6

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