Diamond
#faf7e2
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
#faf7e2
RGB
250, 247, 226
OKLCh
97.3% 0.028 100.3°
CIELAB (D50)
97.0, -1.6, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -102.1. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.08:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7765 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
#faf7e2
protanopia
#f7f7e2 · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#f8f8e2 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#f8f8d7 · ΔE00 4.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Jasmine at ΔE00 0.615: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White JasmineΔE00 0.615 · #f7f4df
- Star ShineΔE00 0.822 · #f8f6e3
- Rocket FuelΔE00 0.862 · #fefbe5
- Lemon WhiteΔE00 0.971 · #fbf6e0
- Lively WhiteΔE00 1.185 · #f7f3e0
- Lead GlassΔE00 1.188 · #fffae5
- Blended LightΔE00 1.285 · #fffbe8
- Tibetan JasmineΔE00 1.316 · #f6f3e1
- Pale NarcissusΔE00 1.338 · #faf5e2
- Tapering LightΔE00 1.348 · #f7f2dd
- Full MoonΔE00 1.414 · #f4f3e0
- Bumble BabyΔE00 1.48 · #f5f1de
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.