HueComb

Icelandic Winter

#d9e7e3

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

#d9e7e3

RGB

217, 231, 227

OKLCh

91.6% 0.016 177.1°

CIELAB (D50)

90.5, -5.4, 0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 60 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 13% 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 13.6; on black, Lc -90.3. 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 6.5 and 6.9 and 15.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d7976 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

#d9e7e3

protanopia

#e5e5e3 · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#e3e3e3 · ΔE00 6.9

tritanopia

#e0e0ff · ΔE00 15.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrystalline Falls at ΔE00 0.429: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Crystalline FallsΔE00 0.429 · #d9e6e2
  • Cave PearlΔE00 0.755 · #d6e5e2
  • Aqua BreezeΔE00 0.775 · #d8e8e4
  • Cirrus BlueΔE00 0.795 · #d6e4e1
  • Homoeopathic BlueΔE00 0.806 · #dbe7e3
  • Cool WhiteΔE00 0.807 · #dae6e2
  • Snowball EffectΔE00 0.835 · #d9e9e5
  • Tulle Soft BlueΔE00 0.933 · #d9e7e5
  • Jack FrostΔE00 0.954 · #dae6e3
  • Blush MintΔE00 0.997 · #d9e6e0
  • Ice FloeΔE00 0.999 · #d8e7e1
  • Morning BreezeΔE00 1.013 · #d5e3de

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