Paper Plane
#f1ece0
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
#f1ece0
RGB
241, 236, 224
OKLCh
94.4% 0.017 88.0°
CIELAB (D50)
93.5, 0.2, 6.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 167 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 25% 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 8.6; on black, Lc -95.6. 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 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766c 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
#f1ece0
protanopia
#edede0 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#edede0 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#eeeecf · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIvory Mist at ΔE00 0.426: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ivory MistΔE00 0.426 · #efeade
- Shell WhiteΔE00 0.465 · #f0ebe0
- Jet WhiteΔE00 0.481 · #f2ede2
- Westhighland WhiteΔE00 0.611 · #f3eee3
- Cream WhiteΔE00 0.634 · #f2eee2
- Cream Cheese FrostingΔE00 0.74 · #f4efe2
- Candlelit BeigeΔE00 0.742 · #f1ede0
- Nilla VanillaΔE00 0.758 · #f1ebe0
- Vintage WhiteΔE00 0.776 · #f4efe4
- Sanding SugarΔE00 0.779 · #efebde
- Silk DessouΔE00 0.779 · #eee9dc
- Mawmaw’s PearlsΔE00 0.782 · #efe9dd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.