HueComb

Porcelain Mint

#dbe7e1

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

#dbe7e1

RGB

219, 231, 225

OKLCh

91.7% 0.015 164.7°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, -5.0, 1.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 59 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 12% 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 13.4; on black, Lc -90.5. 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 5.6 and 5.9 and 16.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f7974 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

#dbe7e1

protanopia

#e6e6e1 · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#e4e4e1 · ΔE00 5.9

tritanopia

#e1e1ff · ΔE00 16.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlush Mint at ΔE00 0.488: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Blush MintΔE00 0.488 · #d9e6e0
  • FizzleΔE00 0.662 · #d8e4de
  • Melting SnowmanΔE00 0.722 · #dae5e0
  • Breezy AquaΔE00 0.735 · #d9e4de
  • Homoeopathic BlueΔE00 0.912 · #dbe7e3
  • Clear Camouflage GreenΔE00 0.923 · #dae8e1
  • Cool WhiteΔE00 0.93 · #dae6e2
  • Pirate CoastΔE00 0.968 · #dde7e2
  • Lost in IstanbulΔE00 0.984 · #dee8e1
  • Frosty PinkΔE00 0.994 · #dfe9e3
  • Minified GreenΔE00 0.994 · #dde8e0
  • Crystal Salt WhiteΔE00 1 · #d9e5dd

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