White Russian
#f0e0dc
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
#f0e0dc
RGB
240, 224, 220
OKLCh
91.8% 0.018 34.3°
CIELAB (D50)
90.4, 5.2, 4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 62 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.9; on black, Lc -89.9. 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 8.0 and 8.7 and 22.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827470 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
#f0e0dc
protanopia
#e2e2dc · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#e5e5dc · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#e8e89d · ΔE00 22.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBare Pink at ΔE00 0.479: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bare PinkΔE00 0.479 · #f2e1dd
- Chantilly LaceΔE00 0.568 · #f1e2de
- PearlyΔE00 0.804 · #f4e3df
- MorningsideΔE00 0.831 · #f3e2df
- Powder RoomΔE00 0.871 · #eee0dd
- Rockabye BabyΔE00 0.873 · #f4e4e0
- Mussel WhiteΔE00 0.895 · #f0e2de
- Rose CreamΔE00 0.961 · #efe0de
- New YouthΔE00 0.982 · #f0e1df
- MannequinΔE00 0.99 · #eedfdd
- Brandy AlexanderΔE00 1.041 · #f3e2dc
- Apricot FoamΔE00 1.054 · #eeded8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.