HueComb

Sugar Glaze

#fff0e1

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

#fff0e1

RGB

255, 240, 225

OKLCh

96.3% 0.026 67.5°

CIELAB (D50)

95.7, 3.4, 9.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 31 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 -99.5. 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 7.6 and 8.0 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827567 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

#fff0e1

protanopia

#f2f2e1 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#f5f5e1 · ΔE00 8.0

tritanopia

#f8f8a3 · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAxolotl at ΔE00 0.83: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • AxolotlΔE00 0.83 · #fff0df
  • Rice PuddingΔE00 0.857 · #fff0e3
  • DoeskinΔE00 0.914 · #fff2e4
  • Silk LiningΔE00 0.951 · #fcefe0
  • Enokitake MushroomΔE00 1.021 · #ffeedd
  • Soft CoralΔE00 1.151 · #ffeee0
  • Delicate SeashellΔE00 1.163 · #ffefdd
  • Sweet ButtermilkΔE00 1.188 · #fceedd
  • Candy Floss CupcakeΔE00 1.235 · #fff0de
  • Soft GossamerΔE00 1.243 · #fbeede
  • Bridal HeathΔE00 1.397 · #f8ebdd
  • Fine WhiteΔE00 1.439 · #faede1

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