HueComb

Dallas Dust

#ece0d6

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

#ece0d6

RGB

236, 224, 214

OKLCh

91.3% 0.019 62.4°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, 3.0, 6.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 74 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 33% 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 14.7; on black, Lc -89.1. 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 6.3 and 6.7 and 16.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80756c 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

#ece0d6

protanopia

#e1e1d6 · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#e4e4d6 · ΔE00 6.7

tritanopia

#e6e6a8 · ΔE00 16.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Dyed Blond at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink Dyed BlondΔE00 0.489 · #ecdfd5
  • Sea SaltΔE00 0.527 · #eee1d7
  • Delicate BlissΔE00 0.528 · #ede0d5
  • Almond IcingΔE00 0.659 · #efe3d9
  • SablewoodΔE00 0.76 · #ecdfd6
  • Grain WhiteΔE00 0.786 · #efe3d8
  • Polite WhiteΔE00 0.797 · #e9ddd4
  • Merlin’s BeardΔE00 0.895 · #efe2d9
  • Soft & WarmΔE00 0.942 · #eae0d6
  • Sweet GardeniaΔE00 0.954 · #efe4da
  • Smokey CreamΔE00 0.988 · #e9dfd5
  • Almost PinkΔE00 1.033 · #f0e3da

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