HueComb

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#f6f1fe

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

#f6f1fe

RGB

246, 241, 254

OKLCh

96.6% 0.018 303.4°

CIELAB (D50)

95.8, 3.5, -5.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.0. 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 8.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797580 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

#f6f1fe

protanopia

#f2f2fe · ΔE00 2.5

deuteranopia

#f2f2fe · ΔE00 2.6

tritanopia

#f3f3ef · ΔE00 8.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Crystal at ΔE00 1.101: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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