Beluga
#eff2f1
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
#eff2f1
RGB
239, 242, 241
OKLCh
95.9% 0.004 174.5°
CIELAB (D50)
95.2, -1.2, 0.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 6% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.9. 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 5.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757776 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
#eff2f1
protanopia
#f2f2f1 · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#f1f1f1 · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#f1f1fa · ΔE00 5.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTell Me a Secret at ΔE00 0.535: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tell Me a SecretΔE00 0.535 · #f0f3f1
- Hotot BunnyΔE00 0.561 · #f1f3f2
- Bái Sè WhiteΔE00 0.798 · #ecefef
- Zappy ZebraΔE00 0.808 · #f1f3f3
- Bakery BoxΔE00 0.815 · #f0f4f2
- Maui MistΔE00 1.06 · #eef2f3
- Moonlit SnowΔE00 1.166 · #eaeeec
- Vibrant WhiteΔE00 1.177 · #eaedeb
- SnowflakeΔE00 1.235 · #eff0f0
- LighthouseΔE00 1.304 · #f3f4f4
- Day SpaΔE00 1.355 · #eaefed
- Dipped in Cloudy DreamsΔE00 1.382 · #e9eeee
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.