HueComb

Homoeopathic Lime

#e9f6e2

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

#e9f6e2

RGB

233, 246, 226

OKLCh

95.8% 0.030 134.4°

CIELAB (D50)

95.5, -7.1, 8.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 34% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -99.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.6 and 5.8 and 16.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f7a69 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

#e9f6e2

protanopia

#f5f5e2 · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#f2f2e2 · ΔE00 5.8

tritanopia

#f0f0ff · ΔE00 16.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPanache at ΔE00 0.575: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • PanacheΔE00 0.575 · #ebf7e4
  • Mossy WhiteΔE00 1.068 · #e7f2de
  • MojitoΔE00 1.107 · #e4f3e0
  • Lower LimeΔE00 1.245 · #e6f1de
  • Herb GardenΔE00 1.407 · #e9f3e1
  • Crème de MentheΔE00 1.53 · #f1fde9
  • Winter ShamrockΔE00 1.588 · #e3efdd
  • Soft FocusΔE00 1.598 · #e2efdd
  • Morning FrostΔE00 1.643 · #ebf4df
  • Distant LandscapeΔE00 1.698 · #e1efdd
  • Mayfair WhiteΔE00 1.712 · #e6f0de
  • Chilled MintΔE00 1.838 · #e4efde

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