HueComb

Ruins of Civilization

#cadece

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

#cadece

RGB

202, 222, 206

OKLCh

88.1% 0.030 151.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.6, -9.1, 5.5

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 14% 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 20.0; on black, Lc -83.4. 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 8.3 and 8.7 and 23.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697b6d 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

#cadece

protanopia

#dcdcce · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#d8d8ce · ΔE00 8.7

tritanopia

#d4d4ff · ΔE00 23.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Wash at ΔE00 1.095: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Green WashΔE00 1.095 · #c6ddcd
  • Flip a CoinΔE00 1.167 · #ccddcc
  • Transparent WhiteΔE00 1.207 · #cbdccb
  • Micaceous GreenΔE00 1.275 · #c5dacc
  • TendernessΔE00 1.307 · #c8dbce
  • Clearly AquaΔE00 1.335 · #c4dbcb
  • SolitaireΔE00 1.449 · #c6decf
  • Marsh FogΔE00 1.549 · #c6d8c7
  • Snow GooseΔE00 1.63 · #c3d9cb
  • Dry LichenΔE00 1.636 · #c7d9cc
  • MystifiedΔE00 1.799 · #c9dbc7
  • Peppermint PattyΔE00 1.801 · #d1e6d5

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