HueComb

Toasted Marshmallow Fluff

#fff9eb

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

#fff9eb

RGB

255, 249, 235

OKLCh

98.3% 0.019 87.5°

CIELAB (D50)

98.1, 0.3, 7.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 46 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 -104.1. 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 8.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

20.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at20.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c766a 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

#fff9eb

protanopia

#fafaeb · ΔE00 3.1

deuteranopia

#fbfbeb · ΔE00 3.2

tritanopia

#fcfcd6 · ΔE00 8.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDay Lily at ΔE00 0.407: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Day LilyΔE00 0.407 · #fff9ec
  • TuberoseΔE00 0.524 · #fffaec
  • Antique ChinaΔE00 0.799 · #fdf6e7
  • Pearl NecklaceΔE00 0.937 · #fcf7eb
  • Fragrant JasmineΔE00 0.978 · #fbf6e7
  • Whipping CreamΔE00 0.991 · #faf5e7
  • Frosting CreamΔE00 1.04 · #fffbee
  • Sheer PeachΔE00 1.137 · #fff7e7
  • Cosmic LatteΔE00 1.168 · #fff8e7
  • Pot of CreamΔE00 1.173 · #f9f4e6
  • Sleek WhiteΔE00 1.196 · #faf6e9
  • Old LaceΔE00 1.213 · #fdf5e6

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