HueComb

Sheikh White

#efecee

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

#efecee

RGB

239, 236, 238

OKLCh

94.6% 0.004 337.4°

CIELAB (D50)

93.7, 1.3, -0.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 40 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 11% 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 8.3; on black, Lc -96.0. 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 5.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797678 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

#efecee

protanopia

#ececee · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#ededee · ΔE00 1.7

tritanopia

#edede5 · ΔE00 5.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Clues at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Violet CluesΔE00 0.489 · #efecef
  • SnowberryΔE00 0.498 · #efeced
  • Amethyst CreamΔE00 0.688 · #eceaec
  • Dried LavenderΔE00 0.946 · #ebe9ec
  • Aragonite WhiteΔE00 1.122 · #f3f1f3
  • Lace CapΔE00 1.19 · #ebeaed
  • Poplar KittenΔE00 1.204 · #ece9e9
  • Crystal BellΔE00 1.228 · #efeeef
  • Perfect WhiteΔE00 1.233 · #f0eeee
  • White ConvolvulusΔE00 1.311 · #f4f2f4
  • Eyes White ShutΔE00 1.357 · #ede8eb
  • Dandelion FloatieΔE00 1.369 · #eae8ec

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