HueComb

Enoki

#f8faee

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

#f8faee

RGB

248, 250, 238

OKLCh

98.0% 0.016 114.4°

CIELAB (D50)

97.9, -2.2, 5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 22% 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 -103.7. 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

1.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76786d 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

#f8faee

protanopia

#fafaee · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#f9f9ee · ΔE00 1.0

tritanopia

#f9f9f4 · ΔE00 3.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApplemint Soda at ΔE00 1.02: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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