Cold Shoulder
#d4e0ef
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
#d4e0ef
RGB
212, 224, 239
OKLCh
90.2% 0.024 254.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.6, -2.0, -8.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.6; on black, Lc -87.1. 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 5.9 and 6.2 and 9.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6d7885 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d4e0ef
protanopia
#dfdfef · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#ddddef · ΔE00 6.2
tritanopia
#dadaff · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreat Blue Heron at ΔE00 0.479: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Great Blue HeronΔE00 0.479 · #d5e0ee
- Dripping IceΔE00 0.734 · #d2dfed
- Brisa de MarΔE00 0.819 · #d2e0ef
- Faint BlueΔE00 1.276 · #d6dfec
- Blooming AsterΔE00 1.277 · #d7e2ee
- Morning ShowerΔE00 1.43 · #d3dcea
- Haunting HueΔE00 1.451 · #d3e0ec
- Brush BlueΔE00 1.456 · #d4e1ed
- Ice DesertΔE00 1.479 · #d1dce8
- Wind ForceΔE00 1.495 · #d5e2ee
- Weathered BlueΔE00 1.517 · #d2e2f2
- Aquarelle PurpleΔE00 1.529 · #d8e1f1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.