Vanilla Blush
#fcede4
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
#fcede4
RGB
252, 237, 228
OKLCh
95.5% 0.020 53.3°
CIELAB (D50)
94.8, 4.1, 6.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 51 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 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.8. 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 7.6 and 8.2 and 19.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#81746c 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
#fcede4
protanopia
#efefe4 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#f2f2e4 · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#f5f5a9 · ΔE00 19.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTulle White at ΔE00 0.527: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tulle WhiteΔE00 0.527 · #fbede5
- Pure FrostΔE00 0.726 · #faeae1
- AlbinoΔE00 0.879 · #fbeee5
- Pico IvoryΔE00 0.9 · #fff1e8
- DogwoodΔE00 0.914 · #faeae2
- Light Rose BeigeΔE00 0.998 · #f9ebe4
- Frothy MilkΔE00 1.065 · #faede6
- Weak OrangeΔE00 1.111 · #faede3
- Natural WhiteΔE00 1.128 · #fbede2
- White CanvasΔE00 1.161 · #faece1
- White PuddingΔE00 1.179 · #f6e8df
- Hush PinkΔE00 1.233 · #f8e9e2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.