What’s Left
#fff4e8
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
#fff4e8
RGB
255, 244, 232
OKLCh
97.3% 0.020 70.0°
CIELAB (D50)
96.8, 2.3, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 35 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 -101.7. 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 5.7 and 6.0 and 15.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.08:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f756b 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
#fff4e8
protanopia
#f5f5e8 · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#f7f7e8 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#fafabf · ΔE00 15.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBacklight at ΔE00 1.064: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BacklightΔE00 1.064 · #fcf0e5
- DoeskinΔE00 1.083 · #fff2e4
- Soft PillowΔE00 1.114 · #fff5e7
- Anemone WhiteΔE00 1.181 · #f9efe4
- LinenΔE00 1.193 · #faf0e6
- Apricot IceΔE00 1.207 · #fff6e9
- Bermuda ShellΔE00 1.301 · #f9eee3
- Chenille WhiteΔE00 1.318 · #f9efe2
- Ambrosia IvoryΔE00 1.341 · #fff4eb
- White ZinΔE00 1.371 · #f8eee3
- Moonlit BeachΔE00 1.377 · #f9f0e6
- Creme AngelsΔE00 1.5 · #f8ede2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.