HueComb

Sugar Coated

#ffedf1

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

#ffedf1

RGB

255, 237, 241

OKLCh

96.2% 0.020 2.3°

CIELAB (D50)

95.3, 6.8, 0.4

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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.9. 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 8.1 and 8.9 and 26.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837376 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

#ffedf1

protanopia

#efeff1 · ΔE00 8.1

deuteranopia

#f2f2f1 · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#f6f6ad · ΔE00 26.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPowder Puff at ΔE00 0.835: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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