Long Beach
#faefdf
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
#faefdf
RGB
250, 239, 223
OKLCh
95.7% 0.024 77.5°
CIELAB (D50)
95.0, 1.9, 9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 88 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 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.3. 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 5.6 and 5.9 and 14.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7567 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
#faefdf
protanopia
#f0f0df · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#f2f2df · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#f5f5b4 · ΔE00 14.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStarglider at ΔE00 0.502: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- StargliderΔE00 0.502 · #faeede
- Marshmallow WhipΔE00 0.513 · #f9efe0
- Fine PorcelainΔE00 0.545 · #faf0e1
- Citrus MistΔE00 0.678 · #f7edde
- Aristocrat IvoryΔE00 0.737 · #faf0df
- White GrapefruitΔE00 0.801 · #fcf0de
- Creamy CameoΔE00 0.834 · #f9eedc
- Island SpiceΔE00 0.918 · #f8eddb
- Historic CreamΔE00 0.921 · #fdf3e3
- Desert StarΔE00 0.924 · #f9f0e1
- Soft GossamerΔE00 0.948 · #fbeede
- Early SnowΔE00 0.954 · #fdf3e4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.