HueComb

Silk Dessou

#eee9dc

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

#eee9dc

RGB

238, 233, 220

OKLCh

93.4% 0.018 89.4°

CIELAB (D50)

92.5, 0.1, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 178 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 22% 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 10.4; on black, Lc -93.7. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b766b 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

#eee9dc

protanopia

#eaeadc · ΔE00 2.6

deuteranopia

#eaeadc · ΔE00 2.7

tritanopia

#ebebcb · ΔE00 7.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPapier Blanc at ΔE00 0.451: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Papier BlancΔE00 0.451 · #efeadc
  • Ivory MistΔE00 0.476 · #efeade
  • Horseradish CreamΔE00 0.537 · #eeeadd
  • Abstract WhiteΔE00 0.577 · #ede9dd
  • Classic Light BuffΔE00 0.613 · #f0eadc
  • Sanding SugarΔE00 0.637 · #efebde
  • Dover WhiteΔE00 0.723 · #f1ebdd
  • Ivory PalaceΔE00 0.735 · #eeeadc
  • Mawmaw’s PearlsΔE00 0.739 · #efe9dd
  • Hint of VanillaΔE00 0.752 · #eee8dc
  • Paper PlaneΔE00 0.779 · #f1ece0
  • White SilenceΔE00 0.782 · #ebe6d8

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