HueComb

Candied Snow

#d8fff3

A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#d8fff3

RGB

216, 255, 243

OKLCh

96.9% 0.043 174.8°

CIELAB (D50)

97.0, -14.7, 1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -102.3. 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 13.8 and 14.6 and 19.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.52:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.52:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5a7e74 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

#d8fff3

protanopia

#fbfbf3 · ΔE00 13.8

deuteranopia

#f4f4f4 · ΔE00 14.6

tritanopia

#ededff · ΔE00 19.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMid Spring Morning at ΔE00 2.254: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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