HueComb

Shattered Ice

#daeee6

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

#daeee6

RGB

218, 238, 230

OKLCh

93.2% 0.024 169.9°

CIELAB (D50)

92.4, -7.9, 1.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 27 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 23% 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 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 8.5 and 9.0 and 17.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697b74 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

#daeee6

protanopia

#ecece6 · ΔE00 8.5

deuteranopia

#e8e8e6 · ΔE00 9.0

tritanopia

#e4e4ff · ΔE00 17.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Spirited at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light SpiritedΔE00 0.813 · #d8eee7
  • ParadiseΔE00 0.897 · #def1ea
  • Dunnock EggΔE00 0.986 · #d9ece6
  • BansheeΔE00 1.094 · #daf0e6
  • Snow BalletΔE00 1.12 · #def1e7
  • Icy GlacierΔE00 1.269 · #d4eae1
  • Dreamy CloudsΔE00 1.305 · #d7eee4
  • Lit’l Buoy BlewΔE00 1.439 · #d6e8e1
  • Sparkling BrookΔE00 1.445 · #dceee3
  • Dew PointeΔE00 1.476 · #d7ede8
  • Reduced TurquoiseΔE00 1.506 · #daece7
  • Aqua GlassΔE00 1.569 · #d2e8e0

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