HueComb

Grim White

#f6f1f4

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

#f6f1f4

RGB

246, 241, 244

OKLCh

96.3% 0.007 340.4°

CIELAB (D50)

95.6, 2.1, -0.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 27% 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 -99.5. 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 9.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7678 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

#f6f1f4

protanopia

#f2f2f4 · ΔE00 2.5

deuteranopia

#f2f2f4 · ΔE00 2.7

tritanopia

#f3f3e4 · ΔE00 9.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbalone at ΔE00 0.413: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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