HueComb

Breezy

#c2dde6

A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#c2dde6

RGB

194, 221, 230

OKLCh

88.0% 0.031 219.8°

CIELAB (D50)

86.3, -7.9, -7.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 36% 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 20.3; on black, Lc -83.1. 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 11.5 and 12.3 and 16.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#627b83 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

#c2dde6

protanopia

#dadae6 · ΔE00 11.5

deuteranopia

#d6d6e7 · ΔE00 12.3

tritanopia

#d0d0ff · ΔE00 16.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBreeze in June at ΔE00 0.459: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Breeze in JuneΔE00 0.459 · #c4dfe8
  • Washing Powder WhiteΔE00 0.844 · #c2dce3
  • Gauzy CalicoΔE00 1.195 · #c8e1e9
  • SkywalkerΔE00 1.201 · #c1deea
  • Wind TunnelΔE00 1.228 · #c7dfe6
  • Glacial StreamΔE00 1.28 · #bcd8e2
  • Light Blue SlothΔE00 1.334 · #c6dde4
  • Getting WetΔE00 1.398 · #c3dae3
  • Cotton CloudsΔE00 1.431 · #c2e1ec
  • Pacific BreezeΔE00 1.448 · #c1dbe7
  • Azul Cielito LindoΔE00 1.472 · #c9e3eb
  • Blue PerennialΔE00 1.479 · #bcd7df

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