HueComb

Silky White

#efebe2

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

#efebe2

RGB

239, 235, 226

OKLCh

94.1% 0.013 86.8°

CIELAB (D50)

93.2, 0.2, 4.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 130 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 19% 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 9.2; on black, Lc -95.0. 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 6.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a766e 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

#efebe2

protanopia

#ebebe2 · ΔE00 2.1

deuteranopia

#ecece2 · ΔE00 2.2

tritanopia

#ededd5 · ΔE00 6.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLinen Ruffle at ΔE00 0.447: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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