HueComb

Eyeball

#fffbf8

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

#fffbf8

RGB

255, 251, 248

OKLCh

99.0% 0.006 59.7°

CIELAB (D50)

98.9, 1.0, 1.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 -105.7. 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 6.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.03:1 — fails AA

Black text

20.41:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at20.41:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7673 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

#fffbf8

protanopia

#fbfbf8 · ΔE00 2.1

deuteranopia

#fcfcf8 · ΔE00 2.3

tritanopia

#fdfdeb · ΔE00 6.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool December at ΔE00 1.019: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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