Dogwood
#faeae2
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
#faeae2
RGB
250, 234, 226
OKLCh
94.8% 0.021 48.5°
CIELAB (D50)
93.8, 4.6, 5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 63 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.2; on black, Lc -96.1. 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 8.1 and 8.8 and 21.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#82746d 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
#faeae2
protanopia
#ecece2 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#efefe2 · ΔE00 8.8
tritanopia
#f2f2a2 · ΔE00 21.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDiminished Orange at ΔE00 0.446: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Diminished OrangeΔE00 0.446 · #fae9e1
- Pure FrostΔE00 0.46 · #faeae1
- Hush PinkΔE00 0.582 · #f8e9e2
- Morning BlushΔE00 0.655 · #f9e8df
- My SweetheartΔE00 0.725 · #f8e7df
- Light Rose BeigeΔE00 0.852 · #f9ebe4
- Vanilla BlushΔE00 0.914 · #fcede4
- Tulle WhiteΔE00 1.009 · #fbede5
- Rose TanΔE00 1.089 · #fae8e1
- Mandarin SugarΔE00 1.121 · #f6e7e1
- Grandma’s CameoΔE00 1.135 · #f7e7dd
- Wisp PinkΔE00 1.164 · #f9e8e2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.