#E4EAEA

sRGB: 228 / 234 / 234

Infinite horizons shimmer beneath moonlight
Immortal legends awaken beneath celestial skies
Infinite wonders illuminate hidden worlds

#E4EAEA belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 228 red, 234 green and 234 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 180.0° lands in the cyan region. Its 12.5% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 90.6% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (17.26:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 228, 234, 234
HSL: 180.00°, 12.50%, 90.59%
HSV / HSB: 180.00°, 2.56%, 91.76%
CMYK (approx.): 2.56%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 8.24%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 76.265, 81.280, 89.515
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 92.256, -1.997, -0.698
WCAG relative luminance: 0.81280
24-bit decimal: 15002346

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #E4EAEA in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 17.26:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.22:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#EAE4E4 sits half a turn (180°) from #E4EAEA on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#E4EAEA #EAE4E4

Analogous

#E4EAE7 and #E4E7EA sit 30° to either side of #E4EAEA. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#E4EAE7 #E4EAEA #E4E7EA

Triadic

#E4EAEA, #EAE4EA and #EAEAE4 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#E4EAEA #EAE4EA #EAEAE4

Split complementary

Start at #E4EAEA and look across the wheel. #EAE4E7 and #EAE7E4 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#E4EAEA #EAE4E7 #EAE7E4

Square

Starting with #E4EAEA, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #E7E4EA, #EAE4E4, then #E7EAE4. Across the square, #E4EAEA pairs with #EAE4E4, and #E7E4EA with #E7EAE4.

#E4EAEA #E7E4EA #EAE4E4 #E7EAE4

Tetradic

#E4EAEA and #EAE4E4 are opposites, as are #E4E4EA and #EAEAE4. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#E4EAEA #E4E4EA #EAE4E4 #EAEAE4

Tints

Mixing #E4EAEA with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #E9EEEE, keeps 80% of the original. By #FAFBFB, the mixture is 80% white.

#E4EAEA #E9EEEE #EFF2F2 #F4F7F7 #FAFBFB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #E4EAEA with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B6BBBB, keeps 80% of the original. By #2E2F2F, the mixture is 80% black.

#E4EAEA #B6BBBB #898C8C #5B5E5E #2E2F2F #000000

Tones

Mixing #E4EAEA with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D0D5D5, keeps 80% of the original. By #949595, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#E4EAEA #D0D5D5 #BCC0C0 #A8AAAA #949595 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#E4EAEA

RGB

rgb(228 234 234)

HSL

hsl(180.000 12.500% 90.588%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #E4EAEA;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#E4EAEA uses 228 red, 234 green and 234 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 89.4%

Green 91.8%

Blue 91.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #E4EAEA is 2.6% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 8.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 2.6%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 8.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #DDEEEE. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #DEE in CSS. For a modern design, keep #E4EAEA when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCFFFF, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #DDEEEE Nearest web-safe: #CCFFFF

Gradient to complement

#E4EAEA #E5E9E9 #E6E8E8 #E7E7E7 #E8E6E6 #E9E5E5 #EAE4E4

Color vision previews

Compare how #E4EAEA appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#E9E9EA

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#E8E8EA

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#E2EAEA

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#E7E9EA

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#E7E9EA

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#E4EAEA

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#E9E9E9

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#E6E9E9

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.77582 G 0.82279 B 0.82279

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.89835 G 0.91688 B 0.91725

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.78416 G 0.82123 B 0.82198

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.309 y 0.329 Y 81.280

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 10.588 M % 8.235 Y % 8.235

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

11100100 11101010 11101010