Homoeopathic Orange
#f2e6e1
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
#f2e6e1
RGB
242, 230, 225
OKLCh
93.3% 0.015 44.2°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, 3.6, 4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 67 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.0; on black, Lc -93.1. 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 6.2 and 6.7 and 18.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7570 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
#f2e6e1
protanopia
#e7e7e1 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#eaeae1 · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#ececb5 · ΔE00 18.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiminished Pink at ΔE00 0.216: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Diminished PinkΔE00 0.216 · #f1e5e0
- Song Thrush EggΔE00 0.467 · #f2e5e0
- Pastel ChinaΔE00 0.639 · #f0e4e0
- Siesta SandsΔE00 0.734 · #f1e6e0
- Glossy KissΔE00 0.822 · #eee3de
- ClerestoryΔE00 0.879 · #f4e6e0
- PotpourriΔE00 0.908 · #f5e7e2
- Rosa ViejaΔE00 0.929 · #f0e3df
- White MeadowΔE00 0.956 · #f2e6df
- Macadamia NutΔE00 1.019 · #eee3dd
- Jasmine FlowerΔE00 1.035 · #f4e8e1
- Irish LinenΔE00 1.039 · #eee4e0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.