HueComb

Perfume Haze

#f3e9f7

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

#f3e9f7

RGB

243, 233, 247

OKLCh

94.6% 0.021 316.5°

CIELAB (D50)

93.4, 5.3, -5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.6; on black, Lc -95.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 18.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d7480 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

#f3e9f7

protanopia

#eaeaf7 · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#ececf7 · ΔE00 4.9

tritanopia

#eeeed8 · ΔE00 18.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHolographic Lavender at ΔE00 1.171: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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