HueComb

French Porcelain

#f6f4f6

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

#f6f4f6

RGB

246, 244, 246

OKLCh

96.9% 0.003 325.6°

CIELAB (D50)

96.4, 1.0, -0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 32 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 13% 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 -101.0. 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.
  • 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

1.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787678 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

#f6f4f6

protanopia

#f4f4f6 · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#f5f5f6 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#f5f5f0 · ΔE00 3.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Owl at ΔE00 0.206: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • White OwlΔE00 0.206 · #f5f3f5
  • White ConvolvulusΔE00 0.412 · #f4f2f4
  • CulturedΔE00 0.499 · #f6f4f5
  • Cascading WhiteΔE00 0.535 · #f7f5f6
  • Aragonite WhiteΔE00 0.62 · #f3f1f3
  • Foamy MilkΔE00 0.735 · #f7f4f7
  • Errigal WhiteΔE00 1.15 · #f2f2f4
  • Liquid NitrogenΔE00 1.245 · #f3f3f4
  • Zhēn Zhū Bái PearlΔE00 1.402 · #f8f8f9
  • Crystal BellΔE00 1.509 · #efeeef
  • White SmokeΔE00 1.545 · #f5f5f5
  • AbaloneΔE00 1.588 · #f8f3f6

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