Pearly
#f4e3df
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
#f4e3df
RGB
244, 227, 223
OKLCh
92.8% 0.019 33.4°
CIELAB (D50)
91.5, 5.5, 4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 67 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.0; on black, Lc -92.0. 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 8.4 and 9.2 and 23.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827470 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f4e3df
protanopia
#e5e5df · ΔE00 8.4
deuteranopia
#e8e8df · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#ecec9b · ΔE00 23.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBare Pink at ΔE00 0.436: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bare PinkΔE00 0.436 · #f2e1dd
- Rockabye BabyΔE00 0.436 · #f4e4e0
- MorningsideΔE00 0.509 · #f3e2df
- Discreet RomanceΔE00 0.559 · #f5e5e1
- Spring PetalΔE00 0.726 · #f6e6e2
- Floral LinenΔE00 0.791 · #f5e2de
- White RussianΔE00 0.804 · #f0e0dc
- Chantilly LaceΔE00 0.862 · #f1e2de
- Reverie PinkΔE00 0.879 · #f4e5e1
- Faded LightΔE00 0.952 · #f5e4de
- Brandy AlexanderΔE00 0.966 · #f3e2dc
- Pink DuetΔE00 0.991 · #f8e7e4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.