HueComb

Salty Ice

#cce2f3

A blue 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

#cce2f3

RGB

204, 226, 243

OKLCh

90.2% 0.033 241.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.6, -5.0, -10.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.5; on black, Lc -87.2. 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 9.8 and 10.4 and 12.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#657988 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

#cce2f3

protanopia

#e0e0f3 · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#dcdcf3 · ΔE00 10.4

tritanopia

#d8d8ff · ΔE00 12.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirst Shade of Blue at ΔE00 0.225: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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