HueComb

Restful Rain

#f1f2dd

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

#f1f2dd

RGB

241, 242, 221

OKLCh

95.5% 0.028 109.1°

CIELAB (D50)

95.0, -3.0, 10.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 31 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 13% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.3. 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

1.14:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777865 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

#f1f2dd

protanopia

#f2f2dd · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#f2f2dd · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#f2f2e0 · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellowish Grey at ΔE00 0.892: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Yellowish GreyΔE00 0.892 · #edeeda
  • Hazy GroveΔE00 0.942 · #f2f1dc
  • HighlightΔE00 1.208 · #eef0de
  • Full MoonΔE00 1.269 · #f4f3e0
  • CravatΔE00 1.392 · #eeedd9
  • Nursery GreenΔE00 1.447 · #edf0de
  • Moth’s WingΔE00 1.45 · #edf1db
  • Dusky MoonΔE00 1.5 · #edecd7
  • Amazon BreezeΔE00 1.507 · #ebebd6
  • MemoirΔE00 1.519 · #ecf0da
  • Pale Rebelka JakubΔE00 1.535 · #ebebd7
  • Colleen GreenΔE00 1.608 · #ebecda

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