Eggshell
#f0ead6
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
#f0ead6
RGB
240, 234, 214
OKLCh
93.6% 0.027 93.1°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, -0.4, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 111 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 30% 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 10.0; on black, Lc -94.2. 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 8.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7765 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
#f0ead6
protanopia
#ebebd6 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#ececd6 · ΔE00 3.1
tritanopia
#ededc0 · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReduced Yellow at ΔE00 0.367: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Reduced YellowΔE00 0.367 · #f0ead7
- LabradorΔE00 0.577 · #f2ecd9
- Mesa BeigeΔE00 0.583 · #f2ebd6
- Satin WeaveΔE00 0.638 · #f3edd9
- Half Pearl LustaΔE00 0.689 · #f1ead7
- Creamy WhiteΔE00 0.702 · #f0e9d6
- Cotton DownΔE00 0.74 · #f0ead8
- Instant ReliefΔE00 0.757 · #ede7d2
- Orchid WhiteΔE00 0.781 · #f1ebd9
- Lucky PotatoΔE00 0.787 · #efead8
- Coastal BeigeΔE00 0.814 · #f0ebd9
- Farm HouseΔE00 0.836 · #eee8d6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.