Vanilla Sugar
#f1e8dc
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
#f1e8dc
RGB
241, 232, 220
OKLCh
93.5% 0.019 75.3°
CIELAB (D50)
92.5, 1.6, 7.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 115 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 35% 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 10.5; on black, Lc -93.6. 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 12.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e766b 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
#f1e8dc
protanopia
#e9e9dc · ΔE00 4.7
deuteranopia
#ebebdc · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#ececbb · ΔE00 12.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLotus Petal at ΔE00 0.472: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lotus PetalΔE00 0.472 · #f2e9dc
- Tangelo CreamΔE00 0.495 · #f2e9de
- French WhiteΔE00 0.514 · #f1e7db
- Vanilla TanΔE00 0.52 · #f1e9dd
- PercaleΔE00 0.545 · #f0e8dd
- Soft PearlΔE00 0.556 · #efe7db
- Madonna LilyΔE00 0.712 · #eee6db
- Table LinenΔE00 0.762 · #f1e9dc
- Fair MaidenΔE00 0.766 · #f1e7dc
- Pearl DustΔE00 0.774 · #efe5d9
- PristineΔE00 0.832 · #f2e8da
- Japanese WhiteΔE00 0.896 · #eee6d9
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.