HueComb

Floaty Bubble

#eaf5e7

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

#eaf5e7

RGB

234, 245, 231

OKLCh

95.8% 0.022 139.0°

CIELAB (D50)

95.4, -5.6, 5.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 27% 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 -99.2. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.2 and 14.4 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#70796d 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

#eaf5e7

protanopia

#f4f4e7 · ΔE00 4.9

deuteranopia

#f2f2e7 · ΔE00 5.2

tritanopia

#f0f0ff · ΔE00 14.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDinner Mint at ΔE00 0.58: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dinner MintΔE00 0.58 · #e8f3e4
  • Glacier IvyΔE00 0.951 · #eaf3e6
  • Mint FizzΔE00 1.23 · #e6f3e7
  • Aqua SpringΔE00 1.238 · #e8f3e8
  • Verde PastelΔE00 1.251 · #edf5e7
  • Sun Bleached MintΔE00 1.372 · #e3efe1
  • Quark WhiteΔE00 1.445 · #e7f1e6
  • Spearmint StickΔE00 1.532 · #e8f0e2
  • Molly GreenΔE00 1.553 · #e3efe3
  • White SulphurΔE00 1.567 · #f1faea
  • PolarΔE00 1.592 · #e5f2e7
  • Herb GardenΔE00 1.621 · #e9f3e1

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