Floaty Ivory
Floaty Ivory (#F7FBE7) is a soft yellow with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (72°, 71%, 95%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English flotian, to float — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, floaty implies a pale-and-light-and-suspended quality where the hue carries the visual register of Edwardian-period tulle-and-chiffon light-and-airy float-and-drift textile movement. Sits at the pale-and-soft end of the grid, parallel to buoyant and floating in usage.
The dentine of elephant and walrus tusk — the off-white biological material carved for ornament since prehistoric times, banned from most international trade since the 1989 CITES listing. The color refers to aged museum-collection ivory: a soft, very pale slightly warm off-white with the matte finish of ancient organic material. Warmer than bone, cooler than cream.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.