HueComb

Milk Tooth

#faebd7

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#faebd7

RGB

250, 235, 215

OKLCh

94.7% 0.031 75.2°

CIELAB (D50)

93.9, 2.9, 11.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 76 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 7.4 and 7.8 and 17.2 — 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

#827563 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

#faebd7

protanopia

#ededd7 · ΔE00 7.4

deuteranopia

#f0f0d7 · ΔE00 7.8

tritanopia

#f3f395 · ΔE00 17.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Blush at ΔE00 0.211: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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