HueComb

Mystic White

#ebebe9

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

#ebebe9

RGB

235, 235, 233

OKLCh

94.0% 0.003 106.5°

CIELAB (D50)

93.0, -0.3, 1.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 90 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.4; on black, Lc -94.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777775 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

#ebebe9

protanopia

#ebebe9 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#ebebe9 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#ebebe9 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolypropylene at ΔE00 0.214: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • PolypropyleneΔE00 0.214 · #eaeae8
  • Celestial GlowΔE00 0.525 · #eaebe9
  • Glacial IceΔE00 0.654 · #eae9e7
  • DashingΔE00 0.768 · #eaebe8
  • Lace VeilΔE00 0.796 · #ecebea
  • Snow StormΔE00 0.807 · #eeedea
  • Arctic WhiteΔE00 0.814 · #e9eae7
  • Quartz StoneΔE00 0.825 · #e8e8e5
  • Lilac MuseΔE00 0.904 · #e9e8e5
  • White SailΔE00 0.98 · #ebebe7
  • Polish WhiteΔE00 0.985 · #e9e8e7
  • Ambience WhiteΔE00 0.987 · #e7e7e6

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