HueComb

Milk and Cookies

#e9e1df

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

#e9e1df

RGB

233, 225, 223

OKLCh

91.5% 0.009 34.3°

CIELAB (D50)

90.1, 2.6, 2.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 48 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 21% 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 14.3; on black, Lc -89.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7573 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

#e9e1df

protanopia

#e2e2df · ΔE00 4.2

deuteranopia

#e3e3df · ΔE00 4.5

tritanopia

#e5e5c4 · ΔE00 13.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Heirloom at ΔE00 0.499: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • French HeirloomΔE00 0.499 · #e9e2e0
  • Sip of Nut MilkΔE00 0.54 · #eae2df
  • Whimsical WhiteΔE00 0.658 · #ece4e2
  • Cloudy GreyΔE00 0.665 · #ece3e1
  • Winged VictoryΔE00 0.771 · #ebe4e2
  • Disappearing MemoriesΔE00 0.84 · #eae3e0
  • ClytemnestraΔE00 0.952 · #e8e2e0
  • Sweet RosesΔE00 1.007 · #eae1dd
  • Hazel BlushΔE00 1.014 · #eae2de
  • Head in the SandΔE00 1.034 · #ebe2de
  • Distilled WatermelonΔE00 1.08 · #ede3e0
  • Red DustΔE00 1.121 · #e8dedb

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