Fresco

#f4dbd9

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

#f4dbd9

RGB

244, 219, 217

OKLCh

91.1% 0.028 23.2°

CIELAB (D50)

89.4, 8.7, 4.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

25 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.5; on black, Lc -88.2. 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 11.5 and 12.9 and 31.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887270 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

#f4dbd9

protanopia

#deded9 · ΔE00 11.5

deuteranopia

#e3e3d8 · ΔE00 12.9

tritanopia

#e8e85a · ΔE00 31.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHawaiian Shell at ΔE00 0.351: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Hawaiian ShellΔE00 0.351 · #f3dbd9
Southern BeautyΔE00 0.594 · #f7dddb
Scented ValentineΔE00 0.669 · #f3d9d6
Light Marshmallow MagicΔE00 0.788 · #f4dddb
Light NurseryΔE00 0.93 · #f4dcdc
In Your DreamsΔE00 0.984 · #f6dddd
Light ApricotΔE00 1.034 · #f2dad6
Lover’s KnotΔE00 1.07 · #f2dbdb
TeewurstΔE00 1.21 · #f2dbd7
Light Petite PinkΔE00 1.229 · #f0d7d7
Pale PerfectionΔE00 1.235 · #f7e0de
Global WarmingΔE00 1.258 · #f1d7d3

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