HueComb

A Dime a Dozen

#d3dde4

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

#d3dde4

RGB

211, 221, 228

OKLCh

89.2% 0.015 238.0°

CIELAB (D50)

87.5, -2.5, -4.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 45 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 24% 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 18.5; on black, Lc -85.1. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.4 and 12.5 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f787e 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

#d3dde4

protanopia

#dcdce4 · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#dadae4 · ΔE00 5.4

tritanopia

#d8d8fe · ΔE00 12.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLondon Lights at ΔE00 0.595: 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.