Grandma’s Cameo
#f7e7dd
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
#f7e7dd
RGB
247, 231, 221
OKLCh
93.8% 0.022 54.3°
CIELAB (D50)
92.7, 4.4, 6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 77 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.0; on black, Lc -94.1. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.1 and 8.8 and 20.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#82746b 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
#f7e7dd
protanopia
#e9e9dd · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#ececdd · ΔE00 8.8
tritanopia
#efef9b · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoast Cream at ΔE00 0.507: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Coast CreamΔE00 0.507 · #f6e6db
- Sheer PinkΔE00 0.572 · #f6e5db
- La MinuteΔE00 0.617 · #f5e5dc
- Butter IcingΔE00 0.635 · #f5e5da
- Bleached ShellΔE00 0.648 · #f6e5da
- Morning BlushΔE00 0.758 · #f9e8df
- Pure FrostΔE00 0.797 · #faeae1
- White PuddingΔE00 0.849 · #f6e8df
- Silk EleganceΔE00 0.874 · #f6e8de
- RoseateΔE00 0.903 · #f7e5db
- Aquarelle PinkΔE00 0.947 · #fbe9de
- Fair PinkΔE00 0.974 · #f3e5dc
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.