Serene
#dce3e4
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
#dce3e4
RGB
220, 227, 228
OKLCh
91.1% 0.008 207.1°
CIELAB (D50)
89.7, -2.3, -1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 53 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 9% 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 14.9; on black, Lc -88.9. 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 10.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727879 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
#dce3e4
protanopia
#e2e2e4 · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#e1e1e4 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#e0e0f7 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAustrian Ice at ΔE00 0.757: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Austrian IceΔE00 0.757 · #dee6e7
- Alpine BlueΔE00 0.899 · #dbe4e5
- Mauve WhiteΔE00 0.939 · #dee3e4
- FiligreeΔE00 0.942 · #dfe7e8
- Cold WaterΔE00 0.96 · #d9dfe0
- ZirconΔE00 0.988 · #dee3e3
- Etched GlassΔE00 0.993 · #dde2e2
- Beach WindΔE00 0.994 · #dce1e2
- Inverness GreyΔE00 1.005 · #dce3e2
- DewdropΔE00 1.022 · #dde4e3
- Echo MistΔE00 1.039 · #d8dfdf
- Drifting CloudΔE00 1.091 · #dbe0e1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.