Painter’s Canvas
#f9f2de
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
#f9f2de
RGB
249, 242, 222
OKLCh
96.1% 0.027 90.9°
CIELAB (D50)
95.6, -0.0, 10.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 84 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -99.4. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.12:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.78:1. 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
#f9f2de
protanopia
#f3f3de · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#f4f4de · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#f5f5c4 · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarshmallow Fluff at ΔE00 0.406: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Marshmallow FluffΔE00 0.406 · #faf3de
- Lights of ShibuyaΔE00 0.491 · #f8f2de
- Exclusive ElixirΔE00 0.515 · #f9f1dd
- TizzyΔE00 0.515 · #f9f3df
- CamembertΔE00 0.547 · #fbf3df
- Powder SandΔE00 0.55 · #f7f1dd
- Apricot WhiteΔE00 0.566 · #f7f0db
- God-GivenΔE00 0.613 · #faf4e0
- Tiger MothΔE00 0.677 · #f8f2dd
- Ruffled ClamΔE00 0.716 · #f9f2dc
- Vanilla PowderΔE00 0.735 · #faf3dd
- Crème de PêcheΔE00 0.826 · #fdf5e0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.