HueComb

Gardenia

#f1e8df

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

#f1e8df

RGB

241, 232, 223

OKLCh

93.6% 0.015 67.6°

CIELAB (D50)

92.5, 2.0, 5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 85 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 only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 5.0 and 13.4 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d756d 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

#f1e8df

protanopia

#e9e9df · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#ebebdf · ΔE00 5.0

tritanopia

#ececbf · ΔE00 13.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScalloped Shell at ΔE00 0.54: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Scalloped ShellΔE00 0.54 · #f3e9e0
  • Almond RocaΔE00 0.56 · #f0e8e0
  • ChickpeaΔE00 0.61 · #efe7df
  • Tea BiscuitΔE00 0.861 · #f5ebe1
  • Fair MaidenΔE00 0.902 · #f1e7dc
  • Tangelo CreamΔE00 0.918 · #f2e9de
  • Soothing PinkΔE00 0.951 · #f2e7de
  • Refer to the StarsΔE00 1.011 · #f1eae2
  • Severe SealΔE00 1.024 · #eee7de
  • Champagne FluteΔE00 1.033 · #f6ece2
  • Stone QuarryΔE00 1.054 · #ece4dc
  • PercaleΔE00 1.149 · #f0e8dd

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