HueComb

Skyscraper

#d3dbe2

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

#d3dbe2

RGB

211, 219, 226

OKLCh

88.7% 0.013 244.3°

CIELAB (D50)

86.9, -1.8, -4.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 41 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 22% 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 19.4; on black, Lc -84.1. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#70787e 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

#d3dbe2

protanopia

#dadae2 · ΔE00 4.1

deuteranopia

#d9d9e2 · ΔE00 4.4

tritanopia

#d7d7f7 · ΔE00 10.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeven Days of Rain at ΔE00 0.488: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Seven Days of RainΔE00 0.488 · #d3dae1
  • Drowsy LavenderΔE00 0.562 · #d4dbe1
  • Cautious BlueΔE00 0.656 · #d5dde5
  • A Dime a DozenΔE00 0.949 · #d3dde4
  • Blustery DayΔE00 1.024 · #d6dfe7
  • Mystic PoolΔE00 1.035 · #d5dde2
  • Reserved BlueΔE00 1.094 · #d2d8de
  • Twinkle BlueΔE00 1.131 · #d0d7df
  • Aster PetalΔE00 1.142 · #d4dae2
  • Highland WindsΔE00 1.143 · #d3dae3
  • Suave GreyΔE00 1.146 · #d1d8dd
  • Harbour LightΔE00 1.17 · #d7e0e7

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