HueComb

Homoeopathic Blue

#dbe7e3

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

#dbe7e3

RGB

219, 231, 227

OKLCh

91.8% 0.014 174.1°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, -4.7, 0.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 60 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 11% 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 13.3; 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 6.0 and 15.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7976 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

#dbe7e3

protanopia

#e6e6e3 · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#e4e4e3 · ΔE00 6.0

tritanopia

#e1e1ff · ΔE00 15.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool White at ΔE00 0.22: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cool WhiteΔE00 0.22 · #dae6e2
  • Crystalline FallsΔE00 0.488 · #d9e6e2
  • Jack FrostΔE00 0.51 · #dae6e3
  • Melting SnowmanΔE00 0.727 · #dae5e0
  • Icelandic WinterΔE00 0.806 · #d9e7e3
  • Porcelain MintΔE00 0.912 · #dbe7e1
  • Pirate CoastΔE00 0.937 · #dde7e2
  • Sandwashed GlassshardΔE00 0.982 · #dee8e3
  • Mild MintΔE00 0.986 · #dce6e3
  • Fresh DayΔE00 0.993 · #dfe9e5
  • Blush MintΔE00 1.055 · #d9e6e0
  • StarburstΔE00 1.061 · #dce7e5

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