Porcelain Blush
#f0dbd5
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
#f0dbd5
RGB
240, 219, 213
OKLCh
90.7% 0.025 36.5°
CIELAB (D50)
89.0, 6.7, 5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.2; on black, Lc -87.4. 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 10.3 and 11.3 and 26.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#85736d 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
#f0dbd5
protanopia
#ddddd5 · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#e1e1d4 · ΔE00 11.3
tritanopia
#e6e674 · ΔE00 26.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Truffle at ΔE00 0.564: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet TruffleΔE00 0.564 · #f0dcd7
- Cosy CottageΔE00 0.647 · #f2ddd8
- Slightly PeachΔE00 0.674 · #f1ddd8
- FiestaΔE00 0.675 · #edd8d2
- AngelicΔE00 0.703 · #f2dcd7
- Light Fairy PinkΔE00 0.795 · #f3ded7
- Rose VapourΔE00 0.948 · #f2dbd6
- Pink ChablisΔE00 0.968 · #f4ded9
- Touch of TanΔE00 1.031 · #eed9d1
- Wedding PinkΔE00 1.233 · #f6dfd8
- Pallid RoseΔE00 1.266 · #f3dfdb
- TeewurstΔE00 1.278 · #f2dbd7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.