HueComb

Crème Fraîche

#eceee6

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

#eceee6

RGB

236, 238, 230

OKLCh

94.5% 0.011 118.0°

CIELAB (D50)

93.8, -1.7, 3.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 75 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 5% 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 8.2; on black, Lc -96.1. 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.
  • 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

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767870 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

#eceee6

protanopia

#eeeee6 · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#edede6 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#ededec · ΔE00 3.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilence at ΔE00 0.552: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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