Platinum Blonde
#f0e8d7
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
#f0e8d7
RGB
240, 232, 215
OKLCh
93.3% 0.024 85.8°
CIELAB (D50)
92.3, 0.7, 9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 168 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 only 33% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7667 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
#f0e8d7
protanopia
#e9e9d7 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#eaead7 · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#ececb9 · ΔE00 10.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRemarkable Beige at ΔE00 0.216: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Remarkable BeigeΔE00 0.216 · #efe7d6
- Antique MarbleΔE00 0.433 · #f1e9d7
- Wings of an AngelΔE00 0.499 · #efe8d7
- Dover CliffsΔE00 0.525 · #f0e9d8
- FusilliΔE00 0.526 · #f1e8d6
- Seaside SandΔE00 0.578 · #f2e9d7
- Eastern WindΔE00 0.689 · #ede6d5
- String BallΔE00 0.725 · #f1e8d8
- Private WhiteΔE00 0.733 · #f3ebd9
- StarfoxΔE00 0.767 · #f0e8d5
- HorchataΔE00 0.773 · #f2e9d9
- Piano KeysΔE00 0.781 · #eee5d4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.