HueComb

Blissful Serenity

#eaeed8

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

#eaeed8

RGB

234, 238, 216

OKLCh

94.0% 0.029 115.3°

CIELAB (D50)

93.3, -4.2, 10.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 14% 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 9.0; on black, Lc -95.3. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#757965 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

#eaeed8

protanopia

#eeeed8 · ΔE00 1.8

deuteranopia

#ededd8 · ΔE00 1.9

tritanopia

#ecece5 · ΔE00 6.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMemoir at ΔE00 0.424: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • MemoirΔE00 0.424 · #ecf0da
  • Moth’s WingΔE00 0.634 · #edf1db
  • Bethlehem SuperstarΔE00 0.695 · #eaeeda
  • Lime MeringueΔE00 1.012 · #e6ecd6
  • Horned LizardΔE00 1.215 · #e8ead5
  • Diluted LimeΔE00 1.478 · #e8efdb
  • Pale PistachioΔE00 1.509 · #e3e7d1
  • Yellowish GreyΔE00 1.554 · #edeeda
  • Spring BreezeΔE00 1.572 · #e8ebd9
  • Nursery GreenΔE00 1.586 · #edf0de
  • Homoeopathic MintΔE00 1.692 · #e5ead8
  • Snowy EvergreenΔE00 1.716 · #edf2e0

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