HueComb

Award Winning White

#fef0de

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

#fef0de

RGB

254, 240, 222

OKLCh

96.1% 0.028 74.3°

CIELAB (D50)

95.6, 2.7, 10.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 39 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 -99.3. 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 7.0 and 7.4 and 16.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817565 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

#fef0de

protanopia

#f2f2de · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#f4f4de · ΔE00 7.4

tritanopia

#f7f7a4 · ΔE00 16.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Floss Cupcake at ΔE00 0.456: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Candy Floss CupcakeΔE00 0.456 · #fff0de
  • Sweet ButtermilkΔE00 0.567 · #fceedd
  • Silk GownΔE00 0.587 · #fceedb
  • AxolotlΔE00 0.715 · #fff0df
  • Mango CheesecakeΔE00 0.755 · #fbedda
  • Soft GossamerΔE00 0.877 · #fbeede
  • Delicate SeashellΔE00 0.911 · #ffefdd
  • White GrapefruitΔE00 0.932 · #fcf0de
  • Ajo LilyΔE00 0.941 · #faecd9
  • MarfilΔE00 0.991 · #f9ecda
  • StargliderΔE00 1.084 · #faeede
  • Pale PearlΔE00 1.098 · #fff2de

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