HueComb

Fallen Petals

#f2e0da

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

#f2e0da

RGB

242, 224, 218

OKLCh

92.0% 0.021 39.4°

CIELAB (D50)

90.5, 5.6, 5.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 66 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.7; on black, Lc -90.1. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.0 and 9.8 and 23.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83736e 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

#f2e0da

protanopia

#e2e2da · ΔE00 9.0

deuteranopia

#e5e5da · ΔE00 9.8

tritanopia

#e9e98e · ΔE00 23.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrandy Alexander at ΔE00 0.562: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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