Frothy Milk
#faede6
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
#faede6
RGB
250, 237, 230
OKLCh
95.4% 0.017 50.4°
CIELAB (D50)
94.6, 3.7, 5.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 49 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.6. 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 6.7 and 7.2 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#80756e 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
#faede6
protanopia
#efefe6 · ΔE00 6.7
deuteranopia
#f1f1e6 · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#f4f4b5 · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose White at ΔE00 0.522: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rose WhiteΔE00 0.522 · #fbeee8
- Tulle WhiteΔE00 0.539 · #fbede5
- Light Rose BeigeΔE00 0.574 · #f9ebe4
- AlbinoΔE00 0.947 · #fbeee5
- Baby BlossomΔE00 0.947 · #faefe9
- Vanilla BlushΔE00 1.065 · #fcede4
- Spooled WhiteΔE00 1.14 · #f5eae3
- Hush PinkΔE00 1.145 · #f8e9e2
- Jasmine FlowerΔE00 1.184 · #f4e8e1
- NaiveteΔE00 1.211 · #f6ebe6
- Pico IvoryΔE00 1.233 · #fff1e8
- Strawberry DustΔE00 1.291 · #fff0ea
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.