HueComb

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#f8e0e7

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

#f8e0e7

RGB

248, 224, 231

OKLCh

92.8% 0.028 358.0°

CIELAB (D50)

91.3, 9.4, -0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.4; on black, Lc -91.6. 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 10.2 and 11.0 and 32.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867178 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

#f8e0e7

protanopia

#e3e3e7 · ΔE00 10.2

deuteranopia

#e7e7e6 · ΔE00 11.0

tritanopia

#ecec80 · ΔE00 32.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCake Frosting at ΔE00 0.811: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.