Holy Ghost
#efe9e6
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
#efe9e6
RGB
239, 233, 230
OKLCh
93.8% 0.008 48.7°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, 1.7, 2.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 57 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 22% 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 9.9; on black, Lc -94.3. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7673 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
#efe9e6
protanopia
#eaeae6 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#ebebe6 · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#ececd2 · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Cream at ΔE00 0.214: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet CreamΔE00 0.214 · #f0eae7
- Lauren’s LaceΔE00 0.516 · #efeae7
- NYC Apartment WallΔE00 0.651 · #efeae8
- White DogwoodΔE00 0.789 · #efeae6
- Bunny HopΔE00 1.026 · #f3ecea
- Pink MirageΔE00 1.068 · #f4ede9
- Flower Girl DressΔE00 1.084 · #ede7e6
- Fresh DoughΔE00 1.086 · #f2ebe6
- Charolais CattleΔE00 1.102 · #f1ebea
- Pale LilyΔE00 1.187 · #f3ece7
- Shell BrookΔE00 1.239 · #eee7e6
- White AlyssumΔE00 1.247 · #efebe7
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.