HueComb

Cumulus

#f3f3e6

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

#f3f3e6

RGB

243, 243, 230

OKLCh

96.1% 0.017 106.7°

CIELAB (D50)

95.6, -1.7, 6.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 76 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 11% 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 -99.4. 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

18.77:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.77:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#77776c 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

#f3f3e6

protanopia

#f3f3e6 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#f3f3e6 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#f3f3e6 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoon Rise at ΔE00 0.461: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Moon RiseΔE00 0.461 · #f4f4e8
  • Shattered WhiteΔE00 0.565 · #f1f1e5
  • White MirageΔE00 0.638 · #f5f4e6
  • Hushed WhiteΔE00 0.71 · #f1f2e4
  • Clear YellowΔE00 0.895 · #f1f1e6
  • Dear ReaderΔE00 1 · #f5f3e6
  • Daisy FieldΔE00 1.007 · #f4f3e8
  • Star MagnoliaΔE00 1.01 · #eeefe2
  • Snowy PineΔE00 1.025 · #f0efe3
  • CalciumΔE00 1.026 · #f2f4e8
  • Abaidh WhiteΔE00 1.058 · #f2f1e6
  • Applemint SodaΔE00 1.071 · #f3f5e9

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