HueComb

Mountain Dew

#cfe2e0

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

#cfe2e0

RGB

207, 226, 224

OKLCh

89.8% 0.020 189.2°

CIELAB (D50)

88.4, -6.8, -1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 13% 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 17.0; on black, Lc -86.6. 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 8.4 and 9.1 and 17.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697a78 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

#cfe2e0

protanopia

#e0e0e0 · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#dddde0 · ΔE00 9.1

tritanopia

#d9d9ff · ΔE00 17.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIcelandish at ΔE00 0.834: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • IcelandishΔE00 0.834 · #ccdfdc
  • Lens Flare BlueΔE00 0.945 · #cee2e2
  • Silver SpruceΔE00 1.054 · #cadfdd
  • PlateauΔE00 1.117 · #d3e7e5
  • Big SkyΔE00 1.195 · #cde2de
  • Water BaptismΔE00 1.213 · #cfdfdd
  • Thin HeightsΔE00 1.239 · #cae0df
  • Billowing SailΔE00 1.302 · #d2e3e3
  • Beach FoamΔE00 1.449 · #cde0e1
  • Zircon IceΔE00 1.451 · #d0e4e5
  • Snow LeopardΔE00 1.484 · #cfdfdb
  • Sunken PoolΔE00 1.534 · #c8ddda

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