HueComb

Rapture’s Light

#f6f3e7

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

#f6f3e7

RGB

246, 243, 231

OKLCh

96.3% 0.016 95.2°

CIELAB (D50)

95.8, -0.5, 6.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 117 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 27% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -99.9. 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

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.89:1. 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

#f6f3e7

protanopia

#f3f3e7 · ΔE00 1.5

deuteranopia

#f4f4e7 · ΔE00 1.6

tritanopia

#f4f4dd · ΔE00 4.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSwan Wing at ΔE00 0.207: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Swan WingΔE00 0.207 · #f5f2e6
  • RisottoΔE00 0.412 · #f8f5e9
  • Vermont CreamΔE00 0.565 · #f8f5e8
  • Sampaguita PearlΔE00 0.581 · #f7f3e6
  • Resort WhiteΔE00 0.595 · #f4f1e4
  • Sun’s GloryΔE00 0.608 · #f6f2e5
  • Open BookΔE00 0.629 · #f5f1e5
  • Magnolia SpringΔE00 0.638 · #f4f2e7
  • Cotton BlossomΔE00 0.699 · #f5f1e4
  • Dear ReaderΔE00 0.705 · #f5f3e6
  • Angel’s FeatherΔE00 0.74 · #f3f1e6
  • Van de CaneΔE00 0.82 · #faf7eb

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