HueComb

Creamy Cloud Dreams

#fff5e0

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

#fff5e0

RGB

255, 245, 224

OKLCh

97.2% 0.030 85.6°

CIELAB (D50)

96.9, 0.9, 11.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 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 -101.8. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 12.2 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7663 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

#fff5e0

protanopia

#f6f6e0 · ΔE00 4.9

deuteranopia

#f8f8e0 · ΔE00 5.1

tritanopia

#fafab9 · ΔE00 12.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isString Cheese at ΔE00 0.885: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • String CheeseΔE00 0.885 · #fbf1dd
  • DamaskΔE00 0.944 · #fcf2df
  • Crème de PêcheΔE00 0.964 · #fdf5e0
  • White LilyΔE00 1.031 · #faf0db
  • CamembertΔE00 1.036 · #fbf3df
  • Moon MaidenΔE00 1.115 · #faf1de
  • Candlelight IvoryΔE00 1.255 · #fcf4e2
  • Moon ValleyΔE00 1.257 · #fcf1de
  • Exclusive ElixirΔE00 1.281 · #f9f1dd
  • Cotton WhisperΔE00 1.345 · #faf1df
  • Soft IvoryΔE00 1.366 · #fbf1df
  • Nova WhiteΔE00 1.449 · #f8eed9

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