Iceberg
#dae4ee
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
#dae4ee
RGB
218, 228, 238
OKLCh
91.4% 0.017 248.0°
CIELAB (D50)
90.0, -2.0, -6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 36 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.3; on black, Lc -89.6. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 10.0 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7881 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
#dae4ee
protanopia
#e3e3ee · ΔE00 5.0
deuteranopia
#e1e1ee · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#dfdfff · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOcean Air at ΔE00 0.443: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ocean AirΔE00 0.443 · #dae4ed
- IcelandicΔE00 0.892 · #dae4ec
- Blooming AsterΔE00 0.965 · #d7e2ee
- St. PetersburgΔE00 0.987 · #dee8f3
- Beyond the WallΔE00 1.091 · #d7e0eb
- Space Wolves GreyΔE00 1.111 · #dae6ef
- Freeze UpΔE00 1.167 · #dee9f4
- Violet VignetteΔE00 1.18 · #d8e0ea
- Icy TealΔE00 1.193 · #d6dfe8
- Harbour AfternoonΔE00 1.222 · #e0e9f3
- Burj Khalifa FountainΔE00 1.342 · #d4dee8
- Blustery DayΔE00 1.391 · #d6dfe7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.