HueComb

Blanc Cassé

#f1eee2

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

#f1eee2

RGB

241, 238, 226

OKLCh

94.8% 0.016 95.2°

CIELAB (D50)

94.1, -0.5, 6.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 154 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 19% 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 7.7; on black, Lc -96.6. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79776c 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

#f1eee2

protanopia

#eeeee2 · ΔE00 1.5

deuteranopia

#efefe2 · ΔE00 1.6

tritanopia

#efefd8 · ΔE00 4.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalt Crystal at ΔE00 0.468: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Salt CrystalΔE00 0.468 · #f0ede0
  • Cream WhiteΔE00 0.512 · #f2eee2
  • Acoustic WhiteΔE00 0.58 · #efece1
  • Crepe Silk WhiteΔE00 0.596 · #f0eee3
  • Candlelit BeigeΔE00 0.612 · #f1ede0
  • Fog WhiteΔE00 0.623 · #f1efe4
  • Resort WhiteΔE00 0.733 · #f4f1e4
  • Trite WhiteΔE00 0.734 · #f4f0e3
  • Coconut ButterΔE00 0.825 · #f2efe1
  • Swan WingΔE00 0.837 · #f5f2e6
  • Atrium WhiteΔE00 0.841 · #f1eee4
  • Sanding SugarΔE00 0.844 · #efebde

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