Snowman
#fefafb
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
#fefafb
RGB
254, 250, 251
OKLCh
98.8% 0.004 360.0°
CIELAB (D50)
98.6, 1.5, 0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -105.2. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.04:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797677 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
#fefafb
protanopia
#fafafb · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#fbfbfb · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#fcfcee · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlawed White at ΔE00 0.2: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Flawed WhiteΔE00 0.2 · #fffbfc
- SnowΔE00 0.645 · #fffafa
- Whitecap SnowΔE00 1.269 · #fffdfd
- Cascading WhiteΔE00 1.478 · #f7f5f6
- Orange AlbedoΔE00 1.599 · #faf8f7
- Foamy MilkΔE00 1.618 · #f7f4f7
- CulturedΔE00 1.636 · #f6f4f5
- French PorcelainΔE00 1.665 · #f6f4f6
- AbaloneΔE00 1.762 · #f8f3f6
- White OwlΔE00 1.83 · #f5f3f5
- Bright WhiteΔE00 1.933 · #f6f2f1
- Cloud PetalΔE00 1.968 · #faf9f8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.