HueComb

Flickering Firefly

#f8f6e6

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

#f8f6e6

RGB

248, 246, 230

OKLCh

97.0% 0.021 101.0°

CIELAB (D50)

96.7, -1.3, 8.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 69 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 30% 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 -101.5. 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.
  • 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

19.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797769 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

#f8f6e6

protanopia

#f6f6e6 · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#f7f7e6 · ΔE00 1.0

tritanopia

#f7f7df · ΔE00 3.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiamond Dust at ΔE00 0.52: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Diamond DustΔE00 0.52 · #f8f5e5
  • Ivory KeysΔE00 0.669 · #f8f7e6
  • ElderflowerΔE00 0.7 · #fbf9e8
  • Stately WhiteΔE00 0.822 · #faf9ea
  • Au Clair de la LuneΔE00 0.825 · #f4f2e2
  • White MirageΔE00 0.95 · #f5f4e6
  • Yellow BonnetΔE00 0.99 · #f9f6e8
  • Photon WhiteΔE00 1.025 · #f8f8e8
  • Tibetan JasmineΔE00 1.027 · #f6f3e1
  • Touch of SunΔE00 1.027 · #faf7e9
  • Ryu’s KimonoΔE00 1.033 · #f3f1e1
  • Placebo YellowΔE00 1.086 · #fcfbeb

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