Put on Ice
#c8ddea
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
#c8ddea
RGB
200, 221, 234
OKLCh
88.6% 0.029 234.9°
CIELAB (D50)
86.8, -5.3, -8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.4; on black, Lc -84.0. 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 9.5 and 10.1 and 13.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667985 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
#c8ddea
protanopia
#dbdbea · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#d7d7ea · ΔE00 10.1
tritanopia
#d3d3ff · ΔE00 13.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCO₂ at ΔE00 0.457: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CO₂ΔE00 0.457 · #cadfec
- Caribbean MistΔE00 0.517 · #cadeea
- Wind of ChangeΔE00 0.65 · #c8deea
- Blue Me AwayΔE00 0.905 · #c9dce7
- Dwindling DenimΔE00 0.91 · #cce1ee
- Atlantic BreezeΔE00 0.927 · #cbe1ee
- King of WavesΔE00 1.054 · #c6dce7
- Celestial LightΔE00 1.106 · #c7dae8
- Washing Powder Soft BlueΔE00 1.242 · #c3d8e4
- Blue TulleΔE00 1.398 · #c9dbe5
- Magic WandΔE00 1.422 · #c3d9e4
- Blueberry IceΔE00 1.434 · #c6d8e4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.