Pearl Powder
#faffed
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
#faffed
RGB
250, 255, 237
OKLCh
99.1% 0.024 119.5°
CIELAB (D50)
99.3, -4.0, 8.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -106.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.02:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747969 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
#faffed
protanopia
#fefeed · ΔE00 2.3
deuteranopia
#fefeed · ΔE00 2.4
tritanopia
#fdfdfd · ΔE00 8.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlacebo Lime at ΔE00 0.846: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Placebo LimeΔE00 0.846 · #f6fceb
- Herbal TeaΔE00 1.088 · #f9fee9
- Amnesiac WhiteΔE00 1.347 · #f8fbeb
- Bean SproutΔE00 1.485 · #f3f9e9
- Soft SilverΔE00 1.867 · #f7f9e9
- GaslightΔE00 2.053 · #feffea
- White SulphurΔE00 2.187 · #f1faea
- Lemon JuiceΔE00 2.29 · #ffffec
- EburneanΔE00 2.341 · #ffffee
- Vanilla DropΔE00 2.348 · #ffffeb
- Fresh DewΔE00 2.445 · #f0f4e5
- Springtime DewΔE00 2.453 · #ffffef
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.