HueComb

Cake Frosting

#f9dfe5

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

#f9dfe5

RGB

249, 223, 229

OKLCh

92.7% 0.030 2.0°

CIELAB (D50)

91.1, 10.0, 0.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.7; on black, Lc -91.2. 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 10.9 and 12.1 and 34.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887176 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

#f9dfe5

protanopia

#e2e2e5 · ΔE00 10.9

deuteranopia

#e7e7e4 · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#ecec6d · ΔE00 34.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPork Belly at ΔE00 0.811: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.