White Truffle
#efdbcd
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
#efdbcd
RGB
239, 219, 205
OKLCh
90.4% 0.029 57.3°
CIELAB (D50)
88.8, 5.4, 9.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 25 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.7; on black, Lc -87.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.1 and 10.8 and 23.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857367 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
#efdbcd
protanopia
#ddddcd · ΔE00 10.1
deuteranopia
#e1e1cc · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#e5e56a · ΔE00 23.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNectar at ΔE00 0.842: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- NectarΔE00 0.842 · #ecdacd
- Nutmeg FrostΔE00 0.869 · #ecd9ca
- Antique PearlΔE00 1.238 · #ebd7cb
- Gobi BeigeΔE00 1.291 · #ebdace
- Nearly PeachΔE00 1.299 · #efded1
- PalatialΔE00 1.308 · #eedcd1
- ShorelandΔE00 1.395 · #ead9cb
- Pink ScallopΔE00 1.434 · #f2e0d4
- Spice CookieΔE00 1.44 · #f0ded3
- PosyΔE00 1.498 · #f3e1d3
- Soft ShoeΔE00 1.589 · #e8d5c6
- Seaside VillaΔE00 1.594 · #e9d5c9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.