HueComb

Ice Cold

#d2eaf1

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

#d2eaf1

RGB

210, 234, 241

OKLCh

92.2% 0.027 217.2°

CIELAB (D50)

91.1, -7.1, -6.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.5; on black, Lc -91.5. 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 10.3 and 11.2 and 14.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#657a81 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

#d2eaf1

protanopia

#e7e7f1 · ΔE00 10.3

deuteranopia

#e3e3f1 · ΔE00 11.2

tritanopia

#dfdfff · ΔE00 14.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOn Thin Ice at ΔE00 1.079: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.