HueComb

Fairy Dust

#ffe8f4

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

#ffe8f4

RGB

255, 232, 244

OKLCh

95.3% 0.029 344.8°

CIELAB (D50)

94.1, 9.6, -2.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 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 7.6; on black, Lc -96.8. 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 9.7 and 10.2 and 33.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85717c 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

#ffe8f4

protanopia

#ebebf4 · ΔE00 9.7

deuteranopia

#efeff3 · ΔE00 10.2

tritanopia

#f4f49a · ΔE00 33.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDolomite Crystal at ΔE00 0.53: 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.