Little Lamb
#eae6d7
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
#eae6d7
RGB
234, 230, 215
OKLCh
92.4% 0.021 94.5°
CIELAB (D50)
91.3, -0.5, 7.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 135 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 17% 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 12.4; on black, Lc -91.5. 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 5.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7769 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#eae6d7
protanopia
#e6e6d7 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#e7e7d7 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#e8e8c9 · ΔE00 5.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeryllonite at ΔE00 0.444: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BerylloniteΔE00 0.444 · #e9e5d7
- Dried CoconutΔE00 0.462 · #ebe7d9
- Historic WhiteΔE00 0.509 · #ebe6d7
- Guinea Pig WhiteΔE00 0.576 · #e8e4d6
- Bleached MeadowΔE00 0.598 · #eae5d5
- Ash WhiteΔE00 0.7 · #e9e4d4
- Fresh LinenΔE00 0.706 · #ebe8da
- White SilenceΔE00 0.716 · #ebe6d8
- China WhiteΔE00 0.802 · #eae6d9
- Stocking WhiteΔE00 0.821 · #e9e5d8
- Quarried LimestoneΔE00 0.826 · #ebe6d5
- ArtificeΔE00 0.878 · #e6e2d3
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.