HueComb

Cosmic Latte

#fff8e7

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

#fff8e7

RGB

255, 248, 231

OKLCh

98.0% 0.024 88.2°

CIELAB (D50)

97.8, 0.3, 9.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 53 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 -103.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7667 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

#fff8e7

protanopia

#f9f9e7 · ΔE00 3.5

deuteranopia

#fafae7 · ΔE00 3.7

tritanopia

#fbfbce · ΔE00 9.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDown Feathers at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Down FeathersΔE00 0.71 · #fff9e7
  • Sheer PeachΔE00 0.724 · #fff7e7
  • Antique ChinaΔE00 0.865 · #fdf6e7
  • Candlelight IvoryΔE00 0.952 · #fcf4e2
  • Sweet FrostingΔE00 1.121 · #fff8e4
  • Toasted Marshmallow FluffΔE00 1.168 · #fff9eb
  • Old LaceΔE00 1.17 · #fdf5e6
  • Fragrant JasmineΔE00 1.182 · #fbf6e7
  • TuberoseΔE00 1.377 · #fffaec
  • Cotton FluffΔE00 1.392 · #f9f4e5
  • Daisy WhiteΔE00 1.457 · #f8f3e3
  • Whipping CreamΔE00 1.474 · #faf5e7

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