Star Dust
#f9f3dd
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
#f9f3dd
RGB
249, 243, 221
OKLCh
96.3% 0.030 94.3°
CIELAB (D50)
95.9, -0.6, 11.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 44 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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -99.9. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7763 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
#f9f3dd
protanopia
#f4f4dd · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#f5f5dd · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#f6f6c7 · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTiger Moth at ΔE00 0.399: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tiger MothΔE00 0.399 · #f8f2dd
- Vanilla PowderΔE00 0.485 · #faf3dd
- Ruffled ClamΔE00 0.51 · #f9f2dc
- Tapering LightΔE00 0.581 · #f7f2dd
- Marshmallow FluffΔE00 0.668 · #faf3de
- TizzyΔE00 0.711 · #f9f3df
- Lights of ShibuyaΔE00 0.729 · #f8f2de
- Lemon WhiteΔE00 0.749 · #fbf6e0
- God-GivenΔE00 0.751 · #faf4e0
- Powder SandΔE00 0.803 · #f7f1dd
- Apricot WhiteΔE00 0.87 · #f7f0db
- Painter’s CanvasΔE00 0.964 · #f9f2de
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.