White Warm Wool
#efe6d1
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
#efe6d1
RGB
239, 230, 209
OKLCh
92.7% 0.029 87.5°
CIELAB (D50)
91.6, 0.6, 11.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 92 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 34% 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 12.0; on black, Lc -92.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7663 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
#efe6d1
protanopia
#e7e7d1 · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#e9e9d1 · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#eaeaae · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWater Chestnut at ΔE00 0.436: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Water ChestnutΔE00 0.436 · #ede4cf
- Vintage LaceΔE00 0.55 · #f1e7d2
- Primrose WhiteΔE00 0.694 · #ece4d0
- Double ScoopΔE00 0.735 · #ece3cf
- Pearled CouscousΔE00 0.761 · #f2e9d5
- EugeniaΔE00 0.854 · #f2e8d4
- Bleached AlmondΔE00 0.861 · #f3ead5
- StarfoxΔE00 0.87 · #f0e8d5
- Yucca WhiteΔE00 0.951 · #f2ead5
- Saffron TintΔE00 0.984 · #f2ead6
- GrowΔE00 1.016 · #f0e6d3
- Good Morning AkihabaraΔE00 1.025 · #f4ead5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.