HueComb

Bethlehem Superstar

#eaeeda

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

#eaeeda

RGB

234, 238, 218

OKLCh

94.1% 0.027 116.1°

CIELAB (D50)

93.4, -4.0, 9.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 27 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 12% 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 8.9; 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 6.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#757967 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

#eaeeda

protanopia

#eeeeda · ΔE00 1.9

deuteranopia

#ededda · ΔE00 1.9

tritanopia

#ecece7 · ΔE00 6.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlissful Serenity at ΔE00 0.695: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Blissful SerenityΔE00 0.695 · #eaeed8
  • MemoirΔE00 0.791 · #ecf0da
  • Moth’s WingΔE00 0.912 · #edf1db
  • Nursery GreenΔE00 0.996 · #edf0de
  • Spring BreezeΔE00 1.016 · #e8ebd9
  • Really RainΔE00 1.144 · #e8ecdb
  • Snowy EvergreenΔE00 1.184 · #edf2e0
  • Homoeopathic MintΔE00 1.207 · #e5ead8
  • Horned LizardΔE00 1.236 · #e8ead5
  • Lime MeringueΔE00 1.245 · #e6ecd6
  • HighlightΔE00 1.3 · #eef0de
  • Diluted LimeΔE00 1.3 · #e8efdb

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