Greek Goddess
#ede9ef
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
#ede9ef
RGB
237, 233, 239
OKLCh
93.9% 0.009 314.8°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, 2.2, -2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 uses only 21% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.8; on black, Lc -94.4. 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 7.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#79767b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ede9ef
protanopia
#e9e9ef · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#eaeaef · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#ebebe3 · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeathery Lilac at ΔE00 0.612: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Feathery LilacΔE00 0.612 · #ece7ed
- Pixie WingΔE00 0.986 · #e9e6eb
- Iris IsleΔE00 1.108 · #e8e5ec
- Easter BunnyΔE00 1.219 · #ebe5eb
- Dandelion FloatieΔE00 1.447 · #eae8ec
- Eyes White ShutΔE00 1.464 · #ede8eb
- In the SpotlightΔE00 1.571 · #ede6ed
- Winter OrchidΔE00 1.615 · #e7e3e7
- Violet CluesΔE00 1.631 · #efecef
- Soft IrisΔE00 1.664 · #e6e3eb
- Cool FrostΔE00 1.716 · #e7e6ed
- Violet HushΔE00 1.721 · #e5e2e7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.