White Beach
#f5efe5
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
#f5efe5
RGB
245, 239, 229
OKLCh
95.4% 0.015 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
94.7, 0.8, 5.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 115 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.8. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766d 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
#f5efe5
protanopia
#f0f0e5 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#f1f1e5 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#f2f2d0 · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStonewashed Pink at ΔE00 0.21: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Stonewashed PinkΔE00 0.21 · #f4eee4
- WhitetailΔE00 0.484 · #f4eee5
- White LuxuryΔE00 0.609 · #f7f0e5
- FlurriesΔE00 0.687 · #f2ede3
- Vintage WhiteΔE00 0.751 · #f4efe4
- Westhighland WhiteΔE00 0.797 · #f3eee3
- Bleached LinenΔE00 0.827 · #f3ece1
- Angelic WhiteΔE00 0.839 · #f4ede4
- Vanilla MilkshakeΔE00 0.845 · #f1ece2
- PowderedΔE00 0.859 · #f9f2e7
- Jet WhiteΔE00 0.891 · #f2ede2
- DevonshireΔE00 0.897 · #f5efe7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.