HueComb

Steam Bath

#ccd0da

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

#ccd0da

RGB

204, 208, 218

OKLCh

85.8% 0.015 268.5°

CIELAB (D50)

83.4, -0.0, -5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 21% 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 25.1; on black, Lc -78.0. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#737780 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

#ccd0da

protanopia

#d0d0da · ΔE00 2.1

deuteranopia

#cfcfda · ΔE00 2.2

tritanopia

#cecee5 · ΔE00 5.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPost Apocalyptic Cloud at ΔE00 0.954: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Post Apocalyptic CloudΔE00 0.954 · #c8cdd8
  • Gentle BlueΔE00 0.984 · #cdd2de
  • Naturally CalmΔE00 1.015 · #ced0d9
  • SimplicityΔE00 1.21 · #ced0db
  • Link WaterΔE00 1.259 · #c7cdd8
  • DebonaireΔE00 1.26 · #cbd0dd
  • Pale ShaleΔE00 1.289 · #cacfdc
  • Multnomah FallsΔE00 1.301 · #ccd0dd
  • Winter’s FuryΔE00 1.335 · #c7ccd8
  • Floral NoteΔE00 1.496 · #cdcfdb
  • Light Slipper SatinΔE00 1.528 · #cfd1d8
  • Light StarlightΔE00 1.587 · #cbd0d7

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