HueComb

Washed Canvas

#f3f0da

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

#f3f0da

RGB

243, 240, 218

OKLCh

95.2% 0.029 100.6°

CIELAB (D50)

94.6, -1.7, 11.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 41 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 27% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.5. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7764 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

#f3f0da

protanopia

#f0f0da · ΔE00 1.4

deuteranopia

#f1f1da · ΔE00 1.5

tritanopia

#f1f1cf · ΔE00 4.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLotus Flower at ΔE00 0.482: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lotus FlowerΔE00 0.482 · #f4f0da
  • Acid BlondΔE00 0.83 · #efedd7
  • Slippery SoapΔE00 0.858 · #efedd8
  • Soft MoonlightΔE00 0.894 · #efecd7
  • White JasmineΔE00 0.92 · #f7f4df
  • Hazy GroveΔE00 0.981 · #f2f1dc
  • Glisten GreenΔE00 1.068 · #f2efdc
  • Summer JasmineΔE00 1.094 · #eeebd6
  • Perfect SolutionΔE00 1.106 · #f2edd7
  • Tapering LightΔE00 1.204 · #f7f2dd
  • Bumble BabyΔE00 1.278 · #f5f1de
  • CravatΔE00 1.304 · #eeedd9

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