Homey Plaster
Homey Plaster (#DCEDF6) is a soft azure with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (201°, 59%, 91%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English hām, home — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, homey implies a neutral-and-comfortable-and-domestic quality, the neutral color of American-and-English-cottage domestic-and-everyday hand-spun-and-comfortable interior-and-textile-finish surface. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to homespun and folksy in usage.
Calcium-sulfate-and-water paste applied to walls as a smooth interior finish — used since pharaonic Egypt and still the standard wall covering of European masonry construction. The color refers to fresh-poured plaster of Paris before drying: a soft, very pale slightly warm off-white with the matte finish of gypsum-and-water paste. Warmer than chalk, cooler than cream.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.
Wide gamut
The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.