HueComb

Lotus Flower

#f4f0da

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

#f4f0da

RGB

244, 240, 218

OKLCh

95.2% 0.029 98.5°

CIELAB (D50)

94.7, -1.3, 11.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 52 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 32% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7764 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

#f4f0da

protanopia

#f0f0da · ΔE00 1.9

deuteranopia

#f1f1da · ΔE00 2.0

tritanopia

#f2f2cc · ΔE00 5.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWashed Canvas at ΔE00 0.482: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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