HueComb

Voracious White

#feeeed

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

#feeeed

RGB

254, 238, 237

OKLCh

96.2% 0.017 21.8°

CIELAB (D50)

95.4, 5.5, 2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 92% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -99.0. 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 7.7 and 8.5 and 23.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827473 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

#feeeed

protanopia

#f0f0ed · ΔE00 7.7

deuteranopia

#f3f3ed · ΔE00 8.5

tritanopia

#f6f6b1 · ΔE00 23.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Gloss at ΔE00 0.633: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • White GlossΔE00 0.633 · #ffeeee
  • Placebo RedΔE00 0.854 · #fcebeb
  • Sefid WhiteΔE00 1.036 · #fff1f1
  • Ballerina GownΔE00 1.039 · #f9eaea
  • Arrowhead WhiteΔE00 1.286 · #f9eaeb
  • Rose FrostΔE00 1.41 · #ffece9
  • Salt PebbleΔE00 1.469 · #f9ecea
  • Translucent UnicornΔE00 1.611 · #ffedef
  • Pink SwirlΔE00 1.68 · #fceae6
  • Fancy PinkΔE00 1.687 · #f6e9e8
  • Girly NurseryΔE00 1.688 · #f6e6e5
  • Pink DuetΔE00 1.742 · #f8e7e4

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