Fuji Peak
#f6eee2
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
#f6eee2
RGB
246, 238, 226
OKLCh
95.2% 0.018 78.2°
CIELAB (D50)
94.5, 1.3, 6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 113 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.3. 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 11.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d766b 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
#f6eee2
protanopia
#efefe2 · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#f0f0e2 · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#f2f2c5 · ΔE00 11.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilk Star White at ΔE00 0.474: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Milk Star WhiteΔE00 0.474 · #f5ede2
- White FlourΔE00 0.482 · #f5ede0
- Edwardian LaceΔE00 0.57 · #f6ede0
- EgretΔE00 0.592 · #f4ece1
- China CupΔE00 0.614 · #f8f0e5
- Light TouchΔE00 0.669 · #f5ecdf
- White LuxuryΔE00 0.676 · #f7f0e5
- Bleached LinenΔE00 0.71 · #f3ece1
- Magnolia PetalΔE00 0.751 · #f7eee3
- Rustic CreamΔE00 0.757 · #f6efe2
- Popcorn PauseΔE00 0.791 · #f4ede0
- Chenille WhiteΔE00 0.968 · #f9efe2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.