HueComb

Yeti Footprint

#c7d7e0

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

#c7d7e0

RGB

199, 215, 224

OKLCh

87.0% 0.021 232.2°

CIELAB (D50)

85.0, -4.2, -6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 27% 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 22.5; on black, Lc -80.7. 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 8.1 and 14.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.48:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.22:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.22:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6a7981 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

#c7d7e0

protanopia

#d5d5e0 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#d2d2e0 · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#cfcfff · ΔE00 14.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrairie Sky at ΔE00 0.386: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Prairie SkyΔE00 0.386 · #c6d7e0
  • Water MistΔE00 0.854 · #c7d8e3
  • Vanilla Ice SmokeΔE00 0.923 · #c9dae2
  • Sweet BreezeΔE00 0.962 · #c8dae3
  • Sentimental LadyΔE00 0.974 · #c4d3dc
  • MoonmistΔE00 0.999 · #c9d9e0
  • Blue RaindropΔE00 1.002 · #c4d6e1
  • Blue TulleΔE00 1.119 · #c9dbe5
  • IcecapΔE00 1.136 · #c3d6e0
  • NearsightedΔE00 1.182 · #c8d5dd
  • Bit of HeavenΔE00 1.266 · #cad7de
  • Blueberry IceΔE00 1.278 · #c6d8e4

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