Vintage Porcelain
#f2edec
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
#f2edec
RGB
242, 237, 236
OKLCh
95.0% 0.006 31.1°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, 1.6, 1.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 38 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 22% 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 7.6; on black, Lc -96.8. 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 8.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7675 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
#f2edec
protanopia
#eeeeec · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#eeeeec · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#efefdc · ΔE00 8.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAngelic Wings at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Angelic WingsΔE00 0.42 · #f4efee
- Charolais CattleΔE00 0.611 · #f1ebea
- Little PinkyΔE00 0.648 · #f4efed
- NYC Apartment WallΔE00 0.823 · #efeae8
- First BlushΔE00 0.95 · #f4edec
- Bunny HopΔE00 1.005 · #f3ecea
- Opulent OpalΔE00 1.005 · #f2ebea
- Bright WhiteΔE00 1.113 · #f6f2f1
- Plastic CloudsΔE00 1.194 · #f5f0f1
- Sweet CreamΔE00 1.203 · #f0eae7
- Lauren’s LaceΔE00 1.208 · #efeae7
- Melodic WhiteΔE00 1.251 · #eee8e8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.