HueComb

Ghost White

#f8f8ff

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

#f8f8ff

RGB

248, 248, 255

OKLCh

98.1% 0.009 286.2°

CIELAB (D50)

97.7, 0.9, -3.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -103.6. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.86:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.86:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76767c 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

#f8f8ff

protanopia

#f8f8ff · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#f8f8ff · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#f8f8ff · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Solid at ΔE00 1.309: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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