HueComb

Marsh Fog

#c6d8c7

A green 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

#c6d8c7

RGB

198, 216, 199

OKLCh

86.4% 0.030 146.9°

CIELAB (D50)

84.6, -8.6, 6.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 12% 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 23.2; on black, Lc -80.0. 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 7.6 and 7.9 and 23.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.49:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6b7b6c 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

#c6d8c7

protanopia

#d6d6c7 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#d3d3c7 · ΔE00 7.9

tritanopia

#cfcff8 · ΔE00 23.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMisty Lake at ΔE00 0.848: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Misty LakeΔE00 0.848 · #c2d5c4
  • Apothecary JarΔE00 0.929 · #c6d6c4
  • Transparent WhiteΔE00 1.055 · #cbdccb
  • New MossΔE00 1.06 · #c6d6c7
  • MystifiedΔE00 1.255 · #c9dbc7
  • Flip a CoinΔE00 1.274 · #ccddcc
  • Ruins of CivilizationΔE00 1.549 · #cadece
  • Dry LichenΔE00 1.557 · #c7d9cc
  • Garden StatueΔE00 1.594 · #bfd4c4
  • Micaceous GreenΔE00 1.654 · #c5dacc
  • TendernessΔE00 1.75 · #c8dbce
  • Juniper MistΔE00 1.809 · #c4d3c5

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