A Smell of Bakery
#f3e9d9
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
#f3e9d9
RGB
243, 233, 217
OKLCh
93.8% 0.024 79.7°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, 1.5, 9.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 132 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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.9; on black, Lc -94.3. 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 5.1 and 5.4 and 13.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7667 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
#f3e9d9
protanopia
#eaead9 · ΔE00 5.1
deuteranopia
#ececd9 · ΔE00 5.4
tritanopia
#eeeeb3 · ΔE00 13.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrey Linnet Egg at ΔE00 0.463: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grey Linnet EggΔE00 0.463 · #f2e8d7
- HorchataΔE00 0.49 · #f2e9d9
- String BallΔE00 0.552 · #f1e8d8
- Chenille SpreadΔE00 0.601 · #f1e7d6
- Parchment PaperΔE00 0.693 · #f0e7d8
- Modern IvoryΔE00 0.769 · #f5ecdc
- Elegant IvoryΔE00 0.771 · #f1e6d6
- Medici IvoryΔE00 0.795 · #f3e9d7
- Ballet WhiteΔE00 0.819 · #f2e7d8
- PristineΔE00 0.844 · #f2e8da
- Baseball BaseΔE00 0.861 · #f4eadc
- Rice BowlΔE00 0.921 · #f1e7d5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.