HueComb

Nordic Breeze

#d3dde7

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

#d3dde7

RGB

211, 221, 231

OKLCh

89.3% 0.018 248.0°

CIELAB (D50)

87.6, -2.1, -6.1

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 32% 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 18.3; on black, Lc -85.2. 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 5.0 and 5.4 and 11.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f7881 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

#d3dde7

protanopia

#dcdce7 · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#dadae7 · ΔE00 5.4

tritanopia

#d8d8ff · ΔE00 11.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurj Khalifa Fountain at ΔE00 0.227: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Burj Khalifa FountainΔE00 0.227 · #d4dee8
  • Icy TealΔE00 0.72 · #d6dfe8
  • Ice DesertΔE00 0.882 · #d1dce8
  • Minified Ballerina BlueΔE00 0.896 · #d3dfea
  • Blustery DayΔE00 1.001 · #d6dfe7
  • Beyond the WallΔE00 1.023 · #d7e0eb
  • Blue SilkΔE00 1.052 · #d0dce8
  • Cautious BlueΔE00 1.062 · #d5dde5
  • London LightsΔE00 1.14 · #d1dce4
  • Greyish WhiteΔE00 1.151 · #d6dee9
  • Violet VignetteΔE00 1.176 · #d8e0ea
  • Shy CandelaΔE00 1.285 · #d6dde6

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