Creamy
#efe8db
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
#efe8db
RGB
239, 232, 219
OKLCh
93.3% 0.019 83.1°
CIELAB (D50)
92.3, 0.8, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 164 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 28% 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 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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 10.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766b 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
#efe8db
protanopia
#e9e9db · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#eaeadb · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#ebebc2 · ΔE00 10.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Soap at ΔE00 0.423: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sugar SoapΔE00 0.423 · #efe8dc
- Jelly YoghurtΔE00 0.432 · #ede6d9
- Bright OcarinaΔE00 0.547 · #f0e8da
- Hint of VanillaΔE00 0.559 · #eee8dc
- Table LinenΔE00 0.562 · #f1e9dc
- Mawmaw’s PearlsΔE00 0.589 · #efe9dd
- Japanese WhiteΔE00 0.632 · #eee6d9
- Painter’s WhiteΔE00 0.748 · #f2ebdd
- Soft PearlΔE00 0.761 · #efe7db
- Vanilla TanΔE00 0.795 · #f1e9dd
- Classic Light BuffΔE00 0.82 · #f0eadc
- Angel FoodΔE00 0.827 · #f0e8d9
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.