Slightly in Love
#fce6db
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
#fce6db
RGB
252, 230, 219
OKLCh
94.0% 0.028 48.4°
CIELAB (D50)
92.9, 6.5, 8.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.8; on black, Lc -94.3. 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 10.8 and 11.7 and 25.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867369 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
#fce6db
protanopia
#e9e9db · ΔE00 10.8
deuteranopia
#ededda · ΔE00 11.7
tritanopia
#f1f16f · ΔE00 25.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Cream at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cool CreamΔE00 0.497 · #fbe5d9
- Sherry CreamΔE00 0.964 · #f9e4db
- French ManicureΔE00 0.985 · #fee6dc
- ChablisΔE00 1.148 · #fde9e0
- Flamingo PeachΔE00 1.205 · #f6e2d8
- Sly ShrimpΔE00 1.219 · #f8e2d9
- Birth of a StarΔE00 1.238 · #fce9df
- Morning SighΔE00 1.289 · #fce9de
- IlluminatedΔE00 1.405 · #f9e5d8
- White PeachΔE00 1.406 · #f9e6da
- Delicate RoseΔE00 1.408 · #f7e0d6
- Provincial PinkΔE00 1.442 · #f6e3da
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.