HueComb

Skeleton

#ebdecc

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

#ebdecc

RGB

235, 222, 204

OKLCh

90.6% 0.028 76.2°

CIELAB (D50)

89.2, 2.4, 10.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 67 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 35% 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 16.0; on black, Lc -87.7. 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 6.6 and 6.9 and 16.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817565 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

#ebdecc

protanopia

#e0e0cc · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#e2e2cc · ΔE00 6.9

tritanopia

#e5e595 · ΔE00 16.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSouthwestern Sand at ΔE00 0.444: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Southwestern SandΔE00 0.444 · #ede0ce
  • Pale GingersnapΔE00 0.465 · #eaddca
  • Sausage RollΔE00 0.506 · #ebdfcd
  • Aged ParchmentΔE00 0.775 · #e9ddca
  • Asian FusionΔE00 0.814 · #ece0cd
  • Natural LinenΔE00 0.856 · #ecdfcf
  • Cascade BeigeΔE00 0.86 · #e7dbca
  • Serengeti DustΔE00 0.862 · #e7dbc9
  • Dry BoneΔE00 0.906 · #eadfce
  • Buckwheat FlourΔE00 0.953 · #efe2cf
  • Crispy CrustΔE00 0.968 · #ebe0cf
  • LambskinΔE00 0.996 · #ebdcca

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