HueComb

Light Spirited

#d8eee7

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

#d8eee7

RGB

216, 238, 231

OKLCh

93.1% 0.025 174.7°

CIELAB (D50)

92.3, -8.5, 0.8

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 25% 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 10.5; on black, Lc -93.6. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.2 and 9.8 and 17.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#677b75 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

#d8eee7

protanopia

#ecece7 · ΔE00 9.2

deuteranopia

#e8e8e7 · ΔE00 9.8

tritanopia

#e3e3ff · ΔE00 17.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShattered Ice at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Shattered IceΔE00 0.813 · #daeee6
  • Dew PointeΔE00 0.878 · #d7ede8
  • CascadeΔE00 1.05 · #d4ede6
  • Dunnock EggΔE00 1.153 · #d9ece6
  • Green FrostingΔE00 1.18 · #d8f1eb
  • Adriatic MistΔE00 1.225 · #d3ece4
  • Icy GlacierΔE00 1.231 · #d4eae1
  • Dreamy CloudsΔE00 1.282 · #d7eee4
  • BansheeΔE00 1.297 · #daf0e6
  • ParadiseΔE00 1.307 · #def1ea
  • Aqua GlassΔE00 1.39 · #d2e8e0
  • StillnessΔE00 1.457 · #d6ebe7

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