Platinum #E0E1DD

About this color

#E0E1DD is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 91%, its chroma 0.005. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Platinum. Black text reads best on it, at 15.98:1.

Colors that go with Platinum

Matches found by rotating Platinum around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Platinum is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Platinum

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Platinum, closest first.

• Alexandrite Treasury
• Taffy Box
• Lunar Hours
• Macaron Cloud
• Ink and Lunar
• Noir Edition
• Drizzle Afternoon
• Dove and Drizzle

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Platinum, with their ΔE distance.

• Pale Silver #D8E2DC ΔE 0.011
• Gainsboro #DCDCDC ΔE 0.014
• Lavender #E6E6FA ΔE 0.040
• Light Gray #D3D3D3 ΔE 0.041
• Champagne #F7E7CE ΔE 0.042
• Cadet Gray #CED4DA ΔE 0.043
• Misty Rose #FFE4E1 ΔE 0.045
• Apricot #FFE5D9 ΔE 0.045

More about Platinum

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Platinum

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts white
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #E5E5E5, a difference of ΔE 0.015 from Platinum. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Platinum in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Platinum

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F5F5F5

   oklch(97% 0 0)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EAEAE8

   oklch(93.6% 0.003 106.5)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #E0E1DD

   oklch(90.8% 0.005 117.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C0C1BC

   oklch(80.9% 0.007 115.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A0A29A

   oklch(70.8% 0.012 118.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #888B81

   oklch(63.1% 0.015 120.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #72756A

   oklch(55.6% 0.017 119.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #606259

   oklch(49.2% 0.014 117.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4E5049

   oklch(42.7% 0.012 119.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #41423D

    oklch(37.6% 0.008 116)

11. Step 950

    950

    #262724

    oklch(27.1% 0.006 121.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Platinum with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.