HueComb

Whispery Breeze

#d6e9e6

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

#d6e9e6

RGB

214, 233, 230

OKLCh

91.9% 0.021 185.5°

CIELAB (D50)

90.9, -6.9, -0.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 36 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 17% 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 12.9; on black, Lc -91.0. 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 8.3 and 9.0 and 16.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697a78 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

#d6e9e6

protanopia

#e7e7e6 · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#e4e4e6 · ΔE00 9.0

tritanopia

#e0e0ff · ΔE00 16.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Omen at ΔE00 0.578: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cold OmenΔE00 0.578 · #d6eae8
  • Supernova ResiduesΔE00 0.652 · #d9ece9
  • PlateauΔE00 0.727 · #d3e7e5
  • Retiring BlueΔE00 0.806 · #d5eae8
  • Dillard’s BlueΔE00 0.897 · #d6e9e4
  • Peaceful NightΔE00 0.899 · #d6e7e3
  • StillnessΔE00 0.908 · #d6ebe7
  • Boiling PointΔE00 1.021 · #d7e9e8
  • Water SquirtΔE00 1.027 · #d8ebea
  • Ice FollyΔE00 1.047 · #dbece9
  • Tropical DreamΔE00 1.161 · #d9eae5
  • Aqua BreezeΔE00 1.161 · #d8e8e4

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