Drifting Cloud
#dbe0e1
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
#dbe0e1
RGB
219, 224, 225
OKLCh
90.3% 0.006 211.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.8, -1.6, -1.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 51 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 7% 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 16.4; on black, Lc -87.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737878 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
#dbe0e1
protanopia
#dfdfe1 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#dfdfe1 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#dedeef · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeach Wind at ΔE00 0.224: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Beach WindΔE00 0.224 · #dce1e2
- Cold WaterΔE00 0.549 · #d9dfe0
- Mauve WhiteΔE00 0.668 · #dee3e4
- Etched GlassΔE00 0.669 · #dde2e2
- ZirconΔE00 0.83 · #dee3e3
- Aura WhiteΔE00 0.92 · #dee2e4
- MainsailΔE00 1.051 · #d9dfe2
- SereneΔE00 1.091 · #dce3e4
- Cosmic DustΔE00 1.102 · #dce2e5
- Silver SandΔE00 1.147 · #dadedd
- Echo MistΔE00 1.187 · #d8dfdf
- Cold LightΔE00 1.204 · #dde3e6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.