Warm White
#efebd8
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
#efebd8
RGB
239, 235, 216
OKLCh
93.8% 0.025 97.1°
CIELAB (D50)
93.0, -1.0, 9.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 102 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 23% 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 9.6; on black, Lc -94.6. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7766 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
#efebd8
protanopia
#ebebd8 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#ececd8 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#ededca · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOlive Tint at ΔE00 0.362: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Olive TintΔE00 0.362 · #efebd7
- Baked BrieΔE00 0.55 · #ede9d7
- Coastal BeigeΔE00 0.679 · #f0ebd9
- Cake BatterΔE00 0.687 · #f0eddb
- Lucky PotatoΔE00 0.692 · #efead8
- Italian LaceΔE00 0.857 · #ede9d4
- Summer JasmineΔE00 0.937 · #eeebd6
- Glisten GreenΔE00 0.94 · #f2efdc
- Soft MoonlightΔE00 0.941 · #efecd7
- EggshellΔE00 0.986 · #f0ead6
- Reduced YellowΔE00 0.997 · #f0ead7
- LabradorΔE00 1.034 · #f2ecd9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.