HueComb

Pearl White

#f3f2ed

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

#f3f2ed

RGB

243, 242, 237

OKLCh

96.0% 0.007 97.4°

CIELAB (D50)

95.5, -0.3, 2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 71 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 9% 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 -99.3. 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

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787772 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

#f3f2ed

protanopia

#f2f2ed · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#f2f2ed · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#f2f2ea · ΔE00 1.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeukocyte White at ΔE00 0.511: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Leukocyte WhiteΔE00 0.511 · #f2f1ed
  • White CloudΔE00 0.521 · #f2f2ed
  • White ShouldersΔE00 0.621 · #f1f0ec
  • Bit of SugarΔE00 0.634 · #f4f2ec
  • Traffic WhiteΔE00 0.635 · #f1f0ea
  • The Speed of LightΔE00 0.695 · #f6f4ef
  • Nano WhiteΔE00 0.743 · #f2f0ea
  • Classic ChalkΔE00 0.752 · #f4f4f0
  • White Picket FenceΔE00 0.773 · #f0efeb
  • White MinkΔE00 0.837 · #efeee9
  • Morning SnowΔE00 0.992 · #f5f4ed
  • Lustre WhiteΔE00 1.049 · #f4f1ec

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