diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/helpers/hex-adjust.js b/ghost/admin/app/helpers/hex-adjust.js
index c4ccb8e857..08e2e2d928 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/helpers/hex-adjust.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/helpers/hex-adjust.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import Color from 'color';
+import {Color} from '@tryghost/color-utils';
 import {helper} from '@ember/component/helper';
 
 export default helper(function hexAdjuster([hex], {s: sDiff = 0, l: lDiff = 0} = {}) {
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/services/ui.js b/ghost/admin/app/services/ui.js
index bf533fc9d5..56f734bd55 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/services/ui.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/services/ui.js
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-import Color from 'color';
 import Service, {inject as service} from '@ember/service';
-import {action} from '@ember/object';
 import {
+    Color,
     darkenToContrastThreshold,
     lightenToContrastThreshold,
     textColorForBackgroundColor
-} from 'ghost-admin/utils/color';
+} from '@tryghost/color-utils';
+import {action} from '@ember/object';
 import {get} from '@ember/object';
 import {isEmpty} from '@ember/utils';
 import {tracked} from '@glimmer/tracking';
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/utils/color.js b/ghost/admin/app/utils/color.js
deleted file mode 100644
index bf85f9db7d..0000000000
--- a/ghost/admin/app/utils/color.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-import Color from 'color';
-
-export function lightenToContrastThreshold(foreground, background, contrastThreshold) {
-    const foregroundColor = Color(foreground);
-    const backgroundColor = Color(background);
-
-    const {h,s} = foregroundColor.hsl().object();
-
-    let newColor = foregroundColor;
-
-    while (newColor.contrast(backgroundColor) < contrastThreshold) {
-        if (newColor.lightness() >= 100) {
-            break;
-        }
-
-        newColor = Color({h, s, l: newColor.lightness() + 5});
-    }
-
-    return newColor;
-}
-
-export function darkenToContrastThreshold(foreground, background, contrastThreshold) {
-    const foregroundColor = Color(foreground);
-    const backgroundColor = Color(background);
-
-    const {h,s} = foregroundColor.hsl().object();
-
-    let newColor = foregroundColor;
-
-    while (newColor.contrast(backgroundColor) < contrastThreshold) {
-        if (newColor.lightness() <= 0) {
-            break;
-        }
-
-        newColor = Color({h, s, l: newColor.lightness() - 5});
-    }
-
-    return newColor;
-}
-
-export function textColorForBackgroundColor(background) {
-    const backgroundColor = Color(background);
-
-    const white = Color({r: 255, g: 255, b: 255});
-    const black = Color({r: 0, g: 0, b: 0});
-
-    // shared with Portal https://github.com/TryGhost/Portal/blob/317876f20d22431df15e655ea6cc197fe636615e/src/utils/contrast-color.js#L26-L29
-    const yiq = (
-        backgroundColor.red() * 299 +
-        backgroundColor.green() * 587 +
-        backgroundColor.b() * 114
-    ) / 1000;
-
-    return (yiq >= 186) ? black : white;
-}
diff --git a/ghost/admin/package.json b/ghost/admin/package.json
index 6c981622d0..9d9876db43 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/package.json
+++ b/ghost/admin/package.json
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     "@glimmer/component": "1.0.4",
     "@html-next/vertical-collection": "2.0.0",
     "@sentry/ember": "6.10.0",
+    "@tryghost/color-utils": "0.1.0",
     "@tryghost/helpers": "1.1.49",
     "@tryghost/kg-clean-basic-html": "2.0.0",
     "@tryghost/kg-parser-plugins": "2.0.0",
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@
     "chai": "4.3.4",
     "chai-dom": "1.9.0",
     "codemirror": "5.48.2",
-    "color": "3.2.1",
     "csscomb": "4.3.0",
     "cssnano": "4.1.10",
     "element-resize-detector": "1.2.3",
diff --git a/ghost/admin/yarn.lock b/ghost/admin/yarn.lock
index 045640b659..d44a0090fa 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/yarn.lock
+++ b/ghost/admin/yarn.lock
@@ -1801,6 +1801,13 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@tootallnate/once/-/once-1.1.2.tgz#ccb91445360179a04e7fe6aff78c00ffc1eeaf82"
   integrity sha512-RbzJvlNzmRq5c3O09UipeuXno4tA1FE6ikOjxZK0tuxVv3412l64l5t1W5pj4+rJq9vpkm/kwiR07aZXnsKPxw==
 
+"@tryghost/color-utils@0.1.0":
+  version "0.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@tryghost/color-utils/-/color-utils-0.1.0.tgz#8a1be31f197d5ad899961b24e3db440038eae876"
+  integrity sha512-FzBH6vazZYNo+FfyltXcRq4vTiBcz0o3Em7iFETQIaMPHVSIBsPjXy5Vvhm7LaT+tyyZInXCsogfKlXynPVOqQ==
+  dependencies:
+    color "^3.2.1"
+
 "@tryghost/helpers@1.1.49":
   version "1.1.49"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@tryghost/helpers/-/helpers-1.1.49.tgz#0bbbe60bde134a93fa0726fef1a58c5bc54c8267"
@@ -4832,7 +4839,7 @@ color-string@^1.6.0:
     color-name "^1.0.0"
     simple-swizzle "^0.2.2"
 
-color@3.2.1, color@^3.0.0:
+color@^3.0.0, color@^3.2.1:
   version "3.2.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/color/-/color-3.2.1.tgz#3544dc198caf4490c3ecc9a790b54fe9ff45e164"
   integrity sha512-aBl7dZI9ENN6fUGC7mWpMTPNHmWUSNan9tuWN6ahh5ZLNk9baLJOnSMlrQkHcrfFgz2/RigjUVAjdx36VcemKA==
@@ -6803,7 +6810,6 @@ ember-power-calendar@^0.16.3:
 
 ember-power-datepicker@cibernox/ember-power-datepicker:
   version "0.8.1"
-  uid da580474a2c449b715444934ddb626b7c07f46a7
   resolved "https://codeload.github.com/cibernox/ember-power-datepicker/tar.gz/da580474a2c449b715444934ddb626b7c07f46a7"
   dependencies:
     ember-basic-dropdown "^3.0.11"
@@ -8589,7 +8595,6 @@ gonzales-pe@4.2.4:
 
 "google-caja-bower@https://github.com/acburdine/google-caja-bower#ghost":
   version "6011.0.0"
-  uid "275cb75249f038492094a499756a73719ae071fd"
   resolved "https://github.com/acburdine/google-caja-bower#275cb75249f038492094a499756a73719ae071fd"
 
 got@^8.0.1:
@@ -9925,7 +9930,6 @@ just-extend@^4.0.2:
 
 "keymaster@https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster.git":
   version "1.6.3"
-  uid f8f43ddafad663b505dc0908e72853bcf8daea49
   resolved "https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster.git#f8f43ddafad663b505dc0908e72853bcf8daea49"
 
 keyv@3.0.0:
@@ -13257,7 +13261,6 @@ simple-swizzle@^0.2.2:
 
 "simplemde@https://github.com/kevinansfield/simplemde-markdown-editor.git#ghost":
   version "1.11.2"
-  uid "4c39702de7d97f9b32d5c101f39237b6dab7c3ee"
   resolved "https://github.com/kevinansfield/simplemde-markdown-editor.git#4c39702de7d97f9b32d5c101f39237b6dab7c3ee"
 
 sinon@^9.0.0: