Linen
#faf0e6
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
#faf0e6
RGB
250, 240, 230
OKLCh
96.0% 0.017 67.6°
CIELAB (D50)
95.4, 2.2, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 57 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -99.0. 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 5.2 and 5.5 and 14.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.12:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e756d 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
#faf0e6
protanopia
#f1f1e6 · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#f3f3e6 · ΔE00 5.5
tritanopia
#f5f5c2 · ΔE00 14.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoonlit Beach at ΔE00 0.478: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Moonlit BeachΔE00 0.478 · #f9f0e6
- Anemone WhiteΔE00 0.5 · #f9efe4
- White ZinΔE00 0.622 · #f8eee3
- Bermuda ShellΔE00 0.661 · #f9eee3
- Creme AngelsΔE00 0.804 · #f8ede2
- Champagne FluteΔE00 0.837 · #f6ece2
- Magnolia PetalΔE00 0.888 · #f7eee3
- BacklightΔE00 0.892 · #fcf0e5
- Palish PeachΔE00 0.971 · #f7ece1
- Vanilla WhiteΔE00 1.044 · #f6eee5
- Tea BiscuitΔE00 1.049 · #f5ebe1
- AlpacaΔE00 1.052 · #f9ede2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.