White Sand
#f5ebd8
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
#f5ebd8
RGB
245, 235, 216
OKLCh
94.3% 0.027 83.5°
CIELAB (D50)
93.5, 1.2, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 114 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 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.8; on black, Lc -95.4. 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 5.0 and 5.2 and 12.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7665 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
#f5ebd8
protanopia
#ececd8 · ΔE00 5.0
deuteranopia
#eeeed8 · ΔE00 5.2
tritanopia
#f0f0b1 · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVenetian Lace at ΔE00 0.423: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Venetian LaceΔE00 0.423 · #f7edda
- Ceylon CreamΔE00 0.426 · #f3e9d6
- Old PearlsΔE00 0.504 · #f6ebd7
- Marquee WhiteΔE00 0.537 · #f5ead6
- AbelΔE00 0.547 · #f5ecda
- PrivilegedΔE00 0.549 · #f3ead7
- Ranier WhiteΔE00 0.555 · #f7ecd8
- Medici IvoryΔE00 0.561 · #f3e9d7
- Summer WhiteΔE00 0.615 · #f4e9d6
- Spinning WheelΔE00 0.616 · #f6edda
- White MountainΔE00 0.65 · #f6eddb
- Seaside SandΔE00 0.684 · #f2e9d7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.