HueComb

Magical Moonlight

#f0eeeb

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

#f0eeeb

RGB

240, 238, 235

OKLCh

95.0% 0.005 78.3°

CIELAB (D50)

94.2, 0.3, 1.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 77 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 10% 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 7.4; on black, Lc -96.9. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787674 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#f0eeeb

protanopia

#eeeeeb · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#efefeb · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#efefe5 · ΔE00 3.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnowy Mount at ΔE00 0.52: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Snowy MountΔE00 0.52 · #f1eeeb
  • Snow StormΔE00 0.586 · #eeedea
  • White GloveΔE00 0.677 · #f0efed
  • Pale BudΔE00 0.785 · #eeebe8
  • White Picket FenceΔE00 0.795 · #f0efeb
  • Silver FeatherΔE00 0.815 · #edebe7
  • Floral ScentΔE00 0.828 · #eeede9
  • White ShouldersΔE00 0.859 · #f1f0ec
  • Leukocyte WhiteΔE00 0.965 · #f2f1ed
  • Metropolitan WhiteΔE00 1.07 · #eeece7
  • Precious PearlsΔE00 1.121 · #f1f0ef
  • IsabellineΔE00 1.152 · #f4f0ec

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.