Ballet White
#f2e7d8
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
#f2e7d8
RGB
242, 231, 216
OKLCh
93.3% 0.023 75.9°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, 2.0, 8.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 110 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.9; on black, Lc -93.2. 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 5.7 and 6.0 and 14.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7568 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
#f2e7d8
protanopia
#e8e8d8 · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#eaead8 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#ededad · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElegant Ivory at ΔE00 0.474: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Elegant IvoryΔE00 0.474 · #f1e6d6
- PristineΔE00 0.552 · #f2e8da
- SaltboxΔE00 0.681 · #f5e9d9
- Pale ChamoisΔE00 0.692 · #efe5d7
- Baseball BaseΔE00 0.806 · #f4eadc
- A Smell of BakeryΔE00 0.819 · #f3e9d9
- Finest SilkΔE00 0.825 · #f1e5d7
- Fair WindsΔE00 0.898 · #f3e6d6
- Parchment PaperΔE00 0.974 · #f0e7d8
- Chenille SpreadΔE00 1.081 · #f1e7d6
- Grey Linnet EggΔE00 1.086 · #f2e8d7
- Lotus PetalΔE00 1.114 · #f2e9dc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.