Silver Bird
#fbf5f0
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
#fbf5f0
RGB
251, 245, 240
OKLCh
97.3% 0.009 62.6°
CIELAB (D50)
96.9, 1.4, 3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 23 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -101.9. 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 9.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.08:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7671 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
#fbf5f0
protanopia
#f6f6f0 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#f7f7f0 · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#f8f8dc · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Milk at ΔE00 0.958: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sugar MilkΔE00 0.958 · #fff9f5
- SheaΔE00 0.99 · #f8f1eb
- Soft BreezeΔE00 1.031 · #f6f0eb
- Foggy PithΔE00 1.183 · #fbf6ef
- Furry LadyΔE00 1.318 · #f5efeb
- Billowy CloudsΔE00 1.425 · #f6f0e9
- IsabellineΔE00 1.486 · #f4f0ec
- Crystal CutΔE00 1.573 · #f8f4ed
- Bright Winter CloudΔE00 1.587 · #f5efe8
- EyeballΔE00 1.678 · #fffbf8
- Icing RoseΔE00 1.722 · #f5eee7
- Pink MirageΔE00 1.775 · #f4ede9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.