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#f5f3e6

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

#f5f3e6

RGB

245, 243, 230

OKLCh

96.2% 0.017 99.6°

CIELAB (D50)

95.7, -1.0, 6.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 107 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 22% 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 -99.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79776c 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

#f5f3e6

protanopia

#f3f3e6 · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#f4f4e6 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#f4f4df · ΔE00 3.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNun Orchid at ΔE00 0.617: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Nun OrchidΔE00 0.617 · #f8f6e9
  • Resort WhiteΔE00 0.626 · #f4f1e4
  • Vermont CreamΔE00 0.68 · #f8f5e8
  • White MirageΔE00 0.695 · #f5f4e6
  • Rapture’s LightΔE00 0.705 · #f6f3e7
  • Swan WingΔE00 0.717 · #f5f2e6
  • Magnolia SpringΔE00 0.834 · #f4f2e7
  • RisottoΔE00 0.848 · #f8f5e9
  • Yellow BonnetΔE00 0.868 · #f9f6e8
  • Daisy FieldΔE00 0.89 · #f4f3e8
  • Angel’s FeatherΔE00 0.9 · #f3f1e6
  • Abaidh WhiteΔE00 0.986 · #f2f1e6

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