Infusion
#c8d0ca
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
#c8d0ca
RGB
200, 208, 202
OKLCh
85.0% 0.012 153.6°
CIELAB (D50)
82.7, -3.7, 2.0
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 6% 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 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717973 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c8d0ca
protanopia
#cfcfca · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#cececa · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#cccce1 · ΔE00 13.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoggy Mist at ΔE00 0.661: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Foggy MistΔE00 0.661 · #c8d1cc
- MurmurΔE00 0.944 · #c7cfc7
- Blue FlowerΔE00 1.051 · #c8d2cd
- Pale LodenΔE00 1.376 · #ccd2ca
- Knightsbridge MistΔE00 1.454 · #c2ccc7
- Celadon GlazeΔE00 1.61 · #ccd4cb
- Light French GreyΔE00 1.743 · #c9cfcc
- Salt GlazeΔE00 1.787 · #cfd4ce
- Sheer LightΔE00 1.856 · #cdd2ce
- RainwashedΔE00 1.859 · #c2cdc5
- Old SterlingΔE00 1.903 · #cfd5d1
- Washed GreenΔE00 1.918 · #ccd1c8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.