Yang Mist
#ede8dd
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
#ede8dd
RGB
237, 232, 221
OKLCh
93.2% 0.016 86.4°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, 0.3, 6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 165 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 21% 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 10.9; on black, Lc -93.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766d 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
#ede8dd
protanopia
#e9e9dd · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#e9e9dd · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#eaeacc · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmber Style at ΔE00 0.476: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Umber StyleΔE00 0.476 · #ece7dd
- PalladianΔE00 0.492 · #eee9df
- Soft WoolΔE00 0.515 · #ece8dd
- Hint of VanillaΔE00 0.572 · #eee8dc
- Ivory MistΔE00 0.59 · #efeade
- Taj MahalΔE00 0.614 · #ede9df
- Mawmaw’s PearlsΔE00 0.62 · #efe9dd
- Shell WhiteΔE00 0.643 · #f0ebe0
- Elk SkinΔE00 0.745 · #eae6dc
- Abstract WhiteΔE00 0.753 · #ede9dd
- Fading ParchmentΔE00 0.838 · #ece6dc
- Nilla VanillaΔE00 0.855 · #f1ebe0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.