HueComb

Translucent Unicorn

#ffedef

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

#ffedef

RGB

255, 237, 239

OKLCh

96.1% 0.020 9.8°

CIELAB (D50)

95.2, 6.5, 1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.8. 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 8.1 and 9.1 and 26.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837375 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

#ffedef

protanopia

#efefef · ΔE00 8.1

deuteranopia

#f2f2ef · ΔE00 9.1

tritanopia

#f6f6aa · ΔE00 26.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Coated at ΔE00 0.865: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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