Slightly in Love

#fce6db

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

#fce6db

RGB

252, 230, 219

OKLCh

94.0% 0.028 48.4°

CIELAB (D50)

92.9, 6.5, 8.2

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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.8; on black, Lc -94.3. 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 10.8 and 11.7 and 25.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.20:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867369 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#fce6db

protanopia

#e9e9db · ΔE00 10.8

deuteranopia

#ededda · ΔE00 11.7

tritanopia

#f1f16f · ΔE00 25.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Cream at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Cool CreamΔE00 0.497 · #fbe5d9
Sherry CreamΔE00 0.964 · #f9e4db
French ManicureΔE00 0.985 · #fee6dc
ChablisΔE00 1.148 · #fde9e0
Flamingo PeachΔE00 1.205 · #f6e2d8
Sly ShrimpΔE00 1.219 · #f8e2d9
Birth of a StarΔE00 1.238 · #fce9df
Morning SighΔE00 1.289 · #fce9de
IlluminatedΔE00 1.405 · #f9e5d8
White PeachΔE00 1.406 · #f9e6da
Delicate RoseΔE00 1.408 · #f7e0d6
Provincial PinkΔE00 1.442 · #f6e3da

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.