White Christmas
#f4e8e8
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
#f4e8e8
RGB
244, 232, 232
OKLCh
94.0% 0.013 17.4°
CIELAB (D50)
93.0, 4.2, 1.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 28 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.6; on black, Lc -94.6. 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 5.9 and 6.5 and 19.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7474 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
#f4e8e8
protanopia
#e9e9e8 · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#ecece8 · ΔE00 6.5
tritanopia
#eeeebe · ΔE00 19.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMont Blanc Peak at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mont Blanc PeakΔE00 0.497 · #f2e7e7
- Crystal ClearΔE00 0.63 · #f4e9ea
- Fancy PinkΔE00 0.641 · #f6e9e8
- Princess ElleΔE00 0.708 · #f6e9ea
- Pampered PrincessΔE00 0.72 · #f5eaeb
- Venus PinkΔE00 0.808 · #f0e5e5
- White-RedΔE00 0.993 · #f3e8ea
- Light ChiffonΔE00 1.007 · #f4e7e5
- Pink VibernumΔE00 1.271 · #f5e6e6
- Salt PebbleΔE00 1.31 · #f9ecea
- Ballerina GownΔE00 1.349 · #f9eaea
- WhisperΔE00 1.416 · #efe6e6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.