Refer to the Stars
#f1eae2
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
#f1eae2
RGB
241, 234, 226
OKLCh
94.0% 0.013 71.3°
CIELAB (D50)
93.1, 1.4, 4.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 87 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 29% 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 9.4; on black, Lc -94.8. 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 10.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766f 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
#f1eae2
protanopia
#ebebe2 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#ecece2 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#ededca · ΔE00 10.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoolly Lamb at ΔE00 0.607: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Woolly LambΔE00 0.607 · #f1ebe4
- Almond RocaΔE00 0.622 · #f0e8e0
- Pale BloomΔE00 0.768 · #f0eae1
- Angelic WhiteΔE00 0.769 · #f4ede4
- ChickpeaΔE00 0.774 · #efe7df
- Severe SealΔE00 0.804 · #eee7de
- Soft LaceΔE00 0.836 · #f5ede5
- Desert StormΔE00 0.887 · #ede7e0
- Paper LambΔE00 0.923 · #f2ebe1
- Shady WhiteΔE00 0.94 · #f0e9df
- Icing RoseΔE00 0.98 · #f5eee7
- Pearl DropsΔE00 0.992 · #f0ebe4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.