HueComb

Onion Skin

#eeeddf

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

#eeeddf

RGB

238, 237, 223

OKLCh

94.3% 0.019 103.4°

CIELAB (D50)

93.5, -1.4, 6.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 94 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 12% 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 8.6; on black, Lc -95.6. 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

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#78776b 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

#eeeddf

protanopia

#ededdf · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#ededdf · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#ededdc · ΔE00 1.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnowfall White at ΔE00 0.397: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Snowfall WhiteΔE00 0.397 · #eeede0
  • SaltedΔE00 0.64 · #ebeadc
  • AgelessΔE00 0.643 · #ececdf
  • Moth MistΔE00 0.772 · #edebde
  • Snowy PineΔE00 0.923 · #f0efe3
  • Barely PearΔE00 0.955 · #edebdb
  • Magical StardustΔE00 0.97 · #eaeadb
  • Crème VanilleΔE00 0.972 · #f1f0e0
  • Amazon MistΔE00 1.006 · #ececdc
  • Rice CakeΔE00 1.011 · #efecde
  • SublimeΔE00 1.024 · #ecede0
  • Pearl OnionΔE00 1.034 · #eeefe1

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