HueComb

Shark

#cadcde

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

#cadcde

RGB

202, 220, 222

OKLCh

88.2% 0.019 204.8°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, -5.9, -3.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 16% 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 20.2; on black, Lc -83.2. 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 8.2 and 8.8 and 17.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697a7c 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

#cadcde

protanopia

#dadade · ΔE00 8.2

deuteranopia

#d7d7de · ΔE00 8.8

tritanopia

#d3d3ff · ΔE00 17.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Relax at ΔE00 0.664: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light RelaxΔE00 0.664 · #caddde
  • Beach House BlueΔE00 0.754 · #ccdcde
  • Liquid HydrogenΔE00 0.905 · #cedfe0
  • EmbellishmentΔE00 1.017 · #cbdee2
  • NymphaeaceaeΔE00 1.04 · #cee0e3
  • Beach FoamΔE00 1.062 · #cde0e1
  • Snow in JuneΔE00 1.067 · #c9dcdc
  • Barest Hint of BlueΔE00 1.08 · #c5d9db
  • Little Boy BluΔE00 1.083 · #c7d8db
  • Reflection PoolΔE00 1.093 · #cadbdf
  • Cosmic RayΔE00 1.16 · #cadada
  • Siesta WhiteΔE00 1.179 · #cbdadb

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