HueComb

Dipped in Cream

#fcf6eb

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

#fcf6eb

RGB

252, 246, 235

OKLCh

97.5% 0.016 82.8°

CIELAB (D50)

97.1, 0.7, 6.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 65 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 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -102.3. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.0 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.52:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.52:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b766d 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

#fcf6eb

protanopia

#f7f7eb · ΔE00 3.1

deuteranopia

#f8f8eb · ΔE00 3.3

tritanopia

#f9f9d6 · ΔE00 9.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Fever at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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