HueComb

Gin

#d9dfcd

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

#d9dfcd

RGB

217, 223, 205

OKLCh

89.4% 0.025 121.9°

CIELAB (D50)

88.0, -4.5, 8.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 12% 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 17.9; on black, Lc -85.7. 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 10.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#747969 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

#d9dfcd

protanopia

#dedecd · ΔE00 2.8

deuteranopia

#ddddcd · ΔE00 2.9

tritanopia

#dcdce0 · ΔE00 10.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLime Spritz at ΔE00 0.589: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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