Ceramic
#fcfff9
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
#fcfff9
RGB
252, 255, 249
OKLCh
99.6% 0.009 128.6°
CIELAB (D50)
99.6, -1.8, 2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -107.2. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.01:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757872 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
#fcfff9
protanopia
#fffff9 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#fefef9 · ΔE00 1.6
tritanopia
#fefeff · ΔE00 4.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlanca Peak at ΔE00 1.567: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blanca PeakΔE00 1.567 · #f8f9f4
- White PorcelainΔE00 1.584 · #f8fbf8
- MilkΔE00 1.761 · #fdfff5
- Whitest WhiteΔE00 1.778 · #f8f9f5
- WhitewashΔE00 1.795 · #fefffc
- Laundry WhiteΔE00 1.805 · #f6f7f1
- Baby PowderΔE00 1.836 · #fefefa
- Touch of MintΔE00 1.932 · #f8fff8
- Pure WhiteΔE00 1.952 · #f8f8f2
- Ultra Pure WhiteΔE00 2.033 · #f8f8f3
- High Reflective WhiteΔE00 2.09 · #f7f7f1
- Grass ValleyΔE00 2.119 · #f4f7ee
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.