Butterfly Kisses
#f0dedc
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
#f0dedc
RGB
240, 222, 220
OKLCh
91.5% 0.020 25.2°
CIELAB (D50)
89.9, 6.1, 3.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 45 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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.7; on black, Lc -89.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.7 and 9.6 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837371 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f0dedc
protanopia
#e0e0dc · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#e3e3dc · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#e7e793 · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHyper Light Drifter at ΔE00 0.8: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hyper Light DrifterΔE00 0.8 · #eddbda
- Echoes of LoveΔE00 0.862 · #eededd
- VerbenaΔE00 0.946 · #f1dfdf
- St. Nicholas BeardΔE00 0.985 · #eedddd
- Cute Little PinkΔE00 1.001 · #f4e2e1
- Diminutive PinkΔE00 1.027 · #f1dede
- MorningsideΔE00 1.048 · #f3e2df
- Pallid RoseΔE00 1.134 · #f3dfdb
- Cottingley FairiesΔE00 1.159 · #eddbd7
- MannequinΔE00 1.193 · #eedfdd
- DelicacyΔE00 1.198 · #f5e3e2
- Bare PinkΔE00 1.218 · #f2e1dd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.