Peachy Milk

#f3e0d8

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

#f3e0d8

RGB

243, 224, 216

OKLCh

92.0% 0.024 44.3°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, 5.8, 6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 68 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.7; on black, Lc -90.2. 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 9.5 and 10.3 and 23.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#84736c 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

#f3e0d8

protanopia

#e2e2d8 · ΔE00 9.5

deuteranopia

#e6e6d8 · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#eaea84 · ΔE00 23.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAngel Wing at ΔE00 0.431: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Angel WingΔE00 0.431 · #f3dfd7
  • Provincial PinkΔE00 0.786 · #f6e3da
  • Sitting PrettyΔE00 0.788 · #f4e2d9
  • Shabby Chic PinkΔE00 0.866 · #efddd6
  • American YorkshireΔE00 0.885 · #efdcd4
  • Kasugai PeachΔE00 0.904 · #f3dfd5
  • Fallen PetalsΔE00 0.907 · #f2e0da
  • Marshmallow CreamΔE00 0.912 · #f3e0d6
  • Touching WhiteΔE00 0.931 · #f4e1d7
  • Flamingo PeachΔE00 0.987 · #f6e2d8
  • Stolen KissΔE00 1.01 · #efdcd3
  • Light Fairy PinkΔE00 1.054 · #f3ded7

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