Exclusive Elixir
#f9f1dd
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
#f9f1dd
RGB
249, 241, 221
OKLCh
95.9% 0.028 88.8°
CIELAB (D50)
95.4, 0.3, 10.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 95 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.9. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7665 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
#f9f1dd
protanopia
#f2f2dd · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#f3f3dd · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#f5f5bf · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCamembert at ΔE00 0.414: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CamembertΔE00 0.414 · #fbf3df
- Painter’s CanvasΔE00 0.515 · #f9f2de
- Moon MaidenΔE00 0.698 · #faf1de
- Apricot WhiteΔE00 0.733 · #f7f0db
- Marshmallow FluffΔE00 0.766 · #faf3de
- Eggshell CreamΔE00 0.837 · #f5eedb
- Cottage WhiteΔE00 0.839 · #f7efdd
- Crème de PêcheΔE00 0.884 · #fdf5e0
- Home PlateΔE00 0.896 · #f7eedb
- White LilyΔE00 0.934 · #faf0db
- String CheeseΔE00 0.971 · #fbf1dd
- Ruffled ClamΔE00 0.977 · #f9f2dc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.