HueComb

Popcorn Pause

#f4ede0

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

#f4ede0

RGB

244, 237, 224

OKLCh

94.8% 0.019 83.1°

CIELAB (D50)

94.0, 0.8, 7.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 147 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 36% 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 7.8; on black, Lc -96.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.1 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c766b 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

#f4ede0

protanopia

#eeeee0 · ΔE00 3.6

deuteranopia

#efefe0 · ΔE00 3.8

tritanopia

#f0f0c7 · ΔE00 10.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRustic Cream at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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