Flip a Coin
#ccddcc
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
#ccddcc
RGB
204, 221, 204
OKLCh
88.0% 0.029 145.3°
CIELAB (D50)
86.5, -8.2, 6.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 20.3; on black, Lc -83.1. 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 7.2 and 7.5 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6b7b6c 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
#ccddcc
protanopia
#dbdbcc · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#d8d8cc · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#d5d5fb · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTransparent White at ΔE00 0.231: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Transparent WhiteΔE00 0.231 · #cbdccb
- Leek WhiteΔE00 1.211 · #cedcca
- St. AugustineΔE00 1.528 · #d0ddcc
- April MistΔE00 1.683 · #ccd9c9
- Apothecary JarΔE00 1.693 · #c6d6c4
- New MossΔE00 1.74 · #c6d6c7
- TendernessΔE00 1.8 · #c8dbce
- Dry LichenΔE00 1.829 · #c7d9cc
- Misty MarshΔE00 1.921 · #d3e1d3
- Minty DelightΔE00 2.001 · #d2e2d5
- Sweet Mint TeaΔE00 2.027 · #d5e3d0
- Micaceous GreenΔE00 2.072 · #c5dacc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.