Angelic White
#f4ede4
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
#f4ede4
RGB
244, 237, 228
OKLCh
94.9% 0.014 74.4°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, 1.3, 5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 97 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 35% 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 7.6; on black, Lc -96.7. 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 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766e 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
#f4ede4
protanopia
#eeeee4 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#efefe4 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#f0f0cc · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhitetail at ΔE00 0.526: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- WhitetailΔE00 0.526 · #f4eee5
- Vanilla WhiteΔE00 0.552 · #f6eee5
- Paper LambΔE00 0.628 · #f2ebe1
- DevonshireΔE00 0.694 · #f5efe7
- Soft LaceΔE00 0.764 · #f5ede5
- Refer to the StarsΔE00 0.769 · #f1eae2
- Stonewashed PinkΔE00 0.773 · #f4eee4
- White BeachΔE00 0.839 · #f5efe5
- Pale BloomΔE00 0.844 · #f0eae1
- Milk Star WhiteΔE00 0.879 · #f5ede2
- EgretΔE00 0.902 · #f4ece1
- Bleached LinenΔE00 0.92 · #f3ece1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.