Creamy Garlic
#ecefe3
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
#ecefe3
RGB
236, 239, 227
OKLCh
94.7% 0.016 118.1°
CIELAB (D50)
94.0, -2.6, 5.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 49 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 8% 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 7.9; on black, Lc -96.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#75786d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ecefe3
protanopia
#efefe3 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#eeeee3 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#eeeeec · ΔE00 5.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlaskan Mist at ΔE00 0.632: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Alaskan MistΔE00 0.632 · #ecf0e5
- Bean WhiteΔE00 0.932 · #ebf0e4
- Aspen WhisperΔE00 0.994 · #edf1e3
- FrostworkΔE00 0.998 · #eff1e3
- Star MagnoliaΔE00 1.016 · #eeefe2
- Sterling ShadowΔE00 1.019 · #e9ebde
- SublimeΔE00 1.071 · #ecede0
- Quiet WhisperΔE00 1.112 · #f1f3e8
- CalciumΔE00 1.192 · #f2f4e8
- Pearl OnionΔE00 1.203 · #eeefe1
- TrellisΔE00 1.215 · #eaefe5
- Hemlock BudΔE00 1.268 · #eceedf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.