HueComb

Béchamel

#f4eee0

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

#f4eee0

RGB

244, 238, 224

OKLCh

95.0% 0.020 87.5°

CIELAB (D50)

94.3, 0.3, 7.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 164 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 34% 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 7.4; on black, Lc -97.0. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c766a 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

#f4eee0

protanopia

#efefe0 · ΔE00 3.1

deuteranopia

#f0f0e0 · ΔE00 3.2

tritanopia

#f1f1cb · ΔE00 8.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoman Column at ΔE00 0.419: 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.