Alpaca
#f9ede2
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
#f9ede2
RGB
249, 237, 226
OKLCh
95.3% 0.020 65.1°
CIELAB (D50)
94.5, 2.8, 6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 55 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.3. 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 6.2 and 6.6 and 16.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f756b 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
#f9ede2
protanopia
#eeeee2 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#f1f1e2 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#f3f3b4 · ΔE00 16.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Dust at ΔE00 0.45: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sugar DustΔE00 0.45 · #f9ede3
- Creme AngelsΔE00 0.465 · #f8ede2
- Bermuda ShellΔE00 0.493 · #f9eee3
- Fine WhiteΔE00 0.517 · #faede1
- Palish PeachΔE00 0.527 · #f7ece1
- BacklightΔE00 0.626 · #fcf0e5
- Weak OrangeΔE00 0.739 · #faede3
- Soft MuslinΔE00 0.746 · #f7eadf
- Natural WhiteΔE00 0.905 · #fbede2
- White CanvasΔE00 0.911 · #faece1
- Champagne FluteΔE00 0.934 · #f6ece2
- Mallow RootΔE00 0.936 · #f8ebde
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.