HueComb

Porcelain Skin

#ffe7eb

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

#ffe7eb

RGB

255, 231, 235

OKLCh

94.8% 0.027 6.2°

CIELAB (D50)

93.7, 8.9, 1.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 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 8.4; on black, Lc -95.9. 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 10.2 and 11.6 and 31.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867275 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

#ffe7eb

protanopia

#eaeaeb · ΔE00 10.2

deuteranopia

#eeeeea · ΔE00 11.6

tritanopia

#f3f383 · ΔE00 31.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Mochi at ΔE00 0.777: 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.