Light Grey
#d8dcd6
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
#d8dcd6
RGB
216, 220, 214
OKLCh
89.0% 0.009 134.9°
CIELAB (D50)
87.3, -2.2, 2.5
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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.9; on black, Lc -84.6. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747872 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
#d8dcd6
protanopia
#dcdcd6 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#dbdbd6 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#dadae2 · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLadoga Bottom at ΔE00 0.623: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ladoga BottomΔE00 0.623 · #d9ded8
- Lighthouse ViewΔE00 0.643 · #d9dcd5
- NurtureΔE00 0.683 · #d7dcd5
- Misty CoastΔE00 0.689 · #d5d9d3
- Aqua HazeΔE00 0.921 · #d9ddd5
- Silvery StreakΔE00 1.005 · #d5dbd5
- Iced SlateΔE00 1.031 · #d6dcd7
- CurioΔE00 1.087 · #d3d8d2
- White SashΔE00 1.104 · #d9ded6
- Evening WhiteΔE00 1.104 · #d8dbd7
- Silken WebΔE00 1.283 · #dadcd4
- Angel TouchΔE00 1.299 · #dddfd8
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.