Celestial Cathedral
#daeaf6
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
#daeaf6
RGB
218, 234, 246
OKLCh
92.9% 0.024 240.1°
CIELAB (D50)
91.8, -3.8, -7.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.3; on black, Lc -92.7. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.5 and 8.0 and 10.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7983 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
#daeaf6
protanopia
#e8e8f6 · ΔE00 7.5
deuteranopia
#e5e5f6 · ΔE00 8.0
tritanopia
#e2e2ff · ΔE00 10.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAzureish White at ΔE00 0.764: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Azureish WhiteΔE00 0.764 · #dbe9f4
- Icicle VeilΔE00 0.941 · #d9e7f2
- Snowdrift GlowΔE00 1.152 · #d6e5f0
- HoarfrostΔE00 1.228 · #dbecfb
- Ice FishingΔE00 1.342 · #dcecf5
- Wizard WhiteΔE00 1.585 · #dff1fd
- Ice DropΔE00 1.752 · #d3e2ee
- Pattens BlueΔE00 1.782 · #d3e5ef
- Space Wolves GreyΔE00 1.837 · #dae6ef
- Dream BlueΔE00 1.856 · #d7e6ee
- Snow ShadowΔE00 1.872 · #d7e4ed
- Freezing VapourΔE00 1.883 · #d4e9f5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.