Puffy Cloud
#d2def2
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
#d2def2
RGB
210, 222, 242
OKLCh
89.8% 0.030 260.7°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, -1.2, -11.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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 5.8 and 6.0 and 8.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6d7789 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
#d2def2
protanopia
#ddddf2 · ΔE00 5.8
deuteranopia
#dbdbf2 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#d8d8ff · ΔE00 8.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Cuddle at ΔE00 1.761: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Light CuddleΔE00 1.761 · #cbd7ed
- Snowy ShadowΔE00 1.802 · #d3dbec
- Hawkes BlueΔE00 1.809 · #d2daed
- Aquarelle PurpleΔE00 1.823 · #d8e1f1
- Lilac Cotton CandyΔE00 1.836 · #cdd7ec
- Cold ShoulderΔE00 2.026 · #d4e0ef
- Alaskan SkiesΔE00 2.074 · #cddced
- Light HindsightΔE00 2.136 · #cdd6ea
- Heroic HeronΔE00 2.155 · #cbd5e9
- Morning ShowerΔE00 2.313 · #d3dcea
- Mother of Pearl SilverΔE00 2.319 · #ccd6e6
- Great Blue HeronΔE00 2.326 · #d5e0ee
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.