Ivory Tower
#fbf3f1
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
#fbf3f1
RGB
251, 243, 241
OKLCh
97.0% 0.009 34.3°
CIELAB (D50)
96.4, 2.5, 2.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -101.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7574 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
#fbf3f1
protanopia
#f4f4f1 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#f5f5f1 · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#f7f7d6 · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrannie’s Pearls at ΔE00 1.136: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Grannie’s PearlsΔE00 1.136 · #f6eeed
- Vienna DawnΔE00 1.268 · #f7efef
- Pink DiminishingΔE00 1.368 · #fff4f2
- First BlushΔE00 1.417 · #f4edec
- CoyΔE00 1.519 · #fff4f3
- Line Dried SheetsΔE00 1.567 · #f5eded
- Bunny HopΔE00 1.569 · #f3ecea
- Angelic WingsΔE00 1.696 · #f4efee
- Little PinkyΔE00 1.705 · #f4efed
- Wispy PinkΔE00 1.727 · #f3ebea
- Soft Peach MistΔE00 1.746 · #fff3f0
- Pink MirageΔE00 1.765 · #f4ede9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.