HueComb

Down Feathers

#fff9e7

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

#fff9e7

RGB

255, 249, 231

OKLCh

98.2% 0.025 91.6°

CIELAB (D50)

98.0, -0.2, 9.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 44 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 -104.0. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7767 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

#fff9e7

protanopia

#fafae7 · ΔE00 3.0

deuteranopia

#fbfbe7 · ΔE00 3.1

tritanopia

#fcfcd1 · ΔE00 8.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCosmic Latte at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cosmic LatteΔE00 0.71 · #fff8e7
  • Sweet FrostingΔE00 0.797 · #fff8e4
  • MagnoliaΔE00 1.092 · #fff9e4
  • Pinch of PearlΔE00 1.101 · #fff8e3
  • Pale NarcissusΔE00 1.109 · #faf5e2
  • Blended LightΔE00 1.159 · #fffbe8
  • Fragrant JasmineΔE00 1.281 · #fbf6e7
  • God-GivenΔE00 1.287 · #faf4e0
  • Lead GlassΔE00 1.293 · #fffae5
  • Candlelight IvoryΔE00 1.354 · #fcf4e2
  • Sheer PeachΔE00 1.434 · #fff7e7
  • TizzyΔE00 1.461 · #f9f3df

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