Labrador
#f2ecd9
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
#f2ecd9
RGB
242, 236, 217
OKLCh
94.3% 0.026 92.4°
CIELAB (D50)
93.5, -0.3, 10.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 137 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 32% 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 8.8; on black, Lc -95.5. 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 8.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7766 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
#f2ecd9
protanopia
#ededd9 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#eeeed9 · ΔE00 3.1
tritanopia
#efefc3 · ΔE00 8.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSatin Weave at ΔE00 0.413: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Satin WeaveΔE00 0.413 · #f3edd9
- Orchid WhiteΔE00 0.419 · #f1ebd9
- Reduced YellowΔE00 0.426 · #f0ead7
- Aquarelle YellowΔE00 0.544 · #f4eeda
- Cotton DownΔE00 0.551 · #f0ead8
- EggshellΔE00 0.577 · #f0ead6
- Spice IvoryΔE00 0.578 · #f4eedc
- Coastal BeigeΔE00 0.595 · #f0ebd9
- Half Pearl LustaΔE00 0.624 · #f1ead7
- Eggshell CreamΔE00 0.679 · #f5eedb
- Lucky PotatoΔE00 0.709 · #efead8
- Buttery WhiteΔE00 0.772 · #f1ebda
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.