Whiskers
#f6f1e2
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
#f6f1e2
RGB
246, 241, 226
OKLCh
95.8% 0.021 91.6°
CIELAB (D50)
95.2, -0.1, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 131 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 36% 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 -98.7. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7769 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
#f6f1e2
protanopia
#f2f2e2 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#f2f2e2 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#f3f3d1 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElegant White at ΔE00 0.209: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Elegant WhiteΔE00 0.209 · #f5f0e1
- Warm MilkΔE00 0.39 · #f6f1e1
- BiancaΔE00 0.418 · #f4efe0
- White SwanΔE00 0.503 · #f7f1e2
- Coconut TwistΔE00 0.554 · #f7f1e1
- Daisy WhiteΔE00 0.555 · #f8f3e3
- DaydreamingΔE00 0.563 · #f4f0e1
- Divine PleasureΔE00 0.563 · #f4efe1
- Cotton FluffΔE00 0.621 · #f9f4e5
- Roman ColumnΔE00 0.731 · #f6f0e2
- Pot of CreamΔE00 0.753 · #f9f4e6
- Alhambra CreamΔE00 0.79 · #f7f2e1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.