Milk Foam
#f6ffe8
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f6ffe8
RGB
246, 255, 232
OKLCh
98.7% 0.032 124.4°
CIELAB (D50)
98.9, -6.0, 10.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -105.6. 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 12.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727a65 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
#f6ffe8
protanopia
#fefee8 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#fcfce8 · ΔE00 4.0
tritanopia
#fbfbff · ΔE00 12.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrème de Menthe at ΔE00 1.673: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crème de MentheΔE00 1.673 · #f1fde9
- Herbal TeaΔE00 1.766 · #f9fee9
- Diminished LimeΔE00 2.079 · #edf5dd
- Minified LimeΔE00 2.124 · #ebf5de
- Lemon SugarΔE00 2.23 · #f0f6dd
- White WillowΔE00 2.233 · #ecf4dd
- Morning FrostΔE00 2.306 · #ebf4df
- FutonΔE00 2.312 · #edf6db
- Wishy-Washy LimeΔE00 2.388 · #eef5db
- Pearl PowderΔE00 2.39 · #faffed
- Old Kitchen WhiteΔE00 2.394 · #eff5dc
- Placebo LimeΔE00 2.43 · #f6fceb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.