HueComb

Misty Marsh

#d3e1d3

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

#d3e1d3

RGB

211, 225, 211

OKLCh

89.5% 0.024 145.4°

CIELAB (D50)

88.2, -6.8, 5.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 12% 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 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 6.2 and 6.5 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7a6e 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

#d3e1d3

protanopia

#dfdfd3 · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#ddddd3 · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#dadafa · ΔE00 20.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFairest Jade at ΔE00 0.861: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fairest JadeΔE00 0.861 · #d3dfd1
  • Minty DelightΔE00 0.886 · #d2e2d5
  • Light MystifiedΔE00 0.99 · #d6e4d4
  • Light Dry LichenΔE00 0.993 · #d4e3d7
  • Whispering FrostΔE00 0.996 · #d7e5d8
  • River MistΔE00 1.258 · #d6e1d4
  • Green MirrorΔE00 1.31 · #d7e2d5
  • Aruba AquaΔE00 1.366 · #d1ded3
  • Green TilberiΔE00 1.446 · #d5e0d0
  • Toadstool DotΔE00 1.526 · #d7e7da
  • St. AugustineΔE00 1.528 · #d0ddcc
  • SentinelΔE00 1.611 · #d2e0d6

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