HueComb

Soft Pillow

#fff5e7

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

#fff5e7

RGB

255, 245, 231

OKLCh

97.4% 0.021 76.5°

CIELAB (D50)

97.0, 1.7, 8.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 47 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 -102.1. 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 5.1 and 5.4 and 13.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.47:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.47:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7669 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

#fff5e7

protanopia

#f6f6e7 · ΔE00 5.1

deuteranopia

#f8f8e7 · ΔE00 5.4

tritanopia

#fafac2 · ΔE00 13.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Ice at ΔE00 0.554: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Apricot IceΔE00 0.554 · #fff6e9
  • Early SnowΔE00 0.594 · #fdf3e4
  • Historic CreamΔE00 0.932 · #fdf3e3
  • What’s LeftΔE00 1.114 · #fff4e8
  • Fine PorcelainΔE00 1.126 · #faf0e1
  • Old LaceΔE00 1.174 · #fdf5e6
  • Silky TofuΔE00 1.218 · #fff5e4
  • Chenille WhiteΔE00 1.291 · #f9efe2
  • Desert StarΔE00 1.312 · #f9f0e1
  • Marshmallow WhipΔE00 1.322 · #f9efe0
  • Whitewashed FenceΔE00 1.373 · #faf2e3
  • Long BeachΔE00 1.468 · #faefdf

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