Mimosa
#f5e9d5
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
#f5e9d5
RGB
245, 233, 213
OKLCh
93.8% 0.029 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
92.9, 1.8, 11.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 83 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 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.8; on black, Lc -94.4. 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 6.0 and 6.3 and 14.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807564 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
#f5e9d5
protanopia
#eaead5 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#ededd5 · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#efefa4 · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVanilla Paste at ΔE00 0.429: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vanilla PasteΔE00 0.429 · #f3e7d3
- Summer WhiteΔE00 0.497 · #f4e9d6
- Marquee WhiteΔE00 0.505 · #f5ead6
- Old PearlsΔE00 0.611 · #f6ebd7
- Vanilla DelightΔE00 0.725 · #f5e8d5
- Ranier WhiteΔE00 0.761 · #f7ecd8
- Dairy BelleΔE00 0.798 · #f4e7d4
- Total RecallΔE00 0.815 · #f6ead8
- Tulip WhiteΔE00 0.861 · #f1e5d1
- Ceylon CreamΔE00 0.904 · #f3e9d6
- White SandΔE00 0.97 · #f5ebd8
- EugeniaΔE00 1.003 · #f2e8d4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.