HueComb

Windy

#bdd1d2

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

#bdd1d2

RGB

189, 209, 210

OKLCh

84.6% 0.022 200.4°

CIELAB (D50)

82.3, -6.8, -2.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 15% 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 26.7; on black, Lc -76.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.0 and 9.7 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#687a7b 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

#bdd1d2

protanopia

#cfcfd2 · ΔE00 9.0

deuteranopia

#cbcbd2 · ΔE00 9.7

tritanopia

#c7c7ff · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDetroit at ΔE00 0.402: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • DetroitΔE00 0.402 · #bdd0d1
  • AntarcticaΔE00 1.421 · #bfd2d0
  • Up in the AirΔE00 1.498 · #c2d5d8
  • Icy WaterfallΔE00 1.519 · #c0d2d0
  • Wind SpeedΔE00 1.632 · #bfd6d9
  • RelaxΔE00 1.683 · #b9d2d3
  • Babbling BrookΔE00 1.699 · #becfcd
  • Scandinavian SkyΔE00 1.725 · #c2d3d6
  • Berry MojitoΔE00 1.806 · #b6caca
  • Haint BlueΔE00 1.823 · #c1d8d9
  • Lament BlueΔE00 1.85 · #bad0d5
  • Breath of GreenΔE00 1.865 · #bdd1ce

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