HueComb

Cold Omen

#d6eae8

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

#d6eae8

RGB

214, 234, 232

OKLCh

92.2% 0.021 189.5°

CIELAB (D50)

91.2, -7.1, -1.4

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 18% 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 12.4; on black, Lc -91.5. 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 8.7 and 9.4 and 16.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#687a79 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

#d6eae8

protanopia

#e8e8e8 · ΔE00 8.7

deuteranopia

#e4e4e8 · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#e0e0ff · ΔE00 16.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRetiring Blue at ΔE00 0.349: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Retiring BlueΔE00 0.349 · #d5eae8
  • Whispery BreezeΔE00 0.578 · #d6e9e6
  • PlateauΔE00 0.658 · #d3e7e5
  • Water SquirtΔE00 0.671 · #d8ebea
  • Supernova ResiduesΔE00 0.722 · #d9ece9
  • Boiling PointΔE00 0.892 · #d7e9e8
  • StillnessΔE00 0.995 · #d6ebe7
  • Puffy Little CloudΔE00 1.001 · #d7edea
  • Blue Green RulesΔE00 1.097 · #d8eeed
  • Ice FollyΔE00 1.267 · #dbece9
  • Dillard’s BlueΔE00 1.387 · #d6e9e4
  • Peaceful NightΔE00 1.454 · #d6e7e3

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