HueComb

Delicate Cloud

#dddfe8

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

#dddfe8

RGB

221, 223, 232

OKLCh

90.5% 0.012 276.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.9, 0.5, -4.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 44 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 27% 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 16.3; on black, Lc -87.4. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#75767e 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

#dddfe8

protanopia

#dfdfe8 · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#dedee8 · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#dedeee · ΔE00 3.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMonet’s Lavender at ΔE00 0.619: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Monet’s LavenderΔE00 0.619 · #dde0ea
  • Timid CloudΔE00 0.736 · #dcdde5
  • Orchid WhisperΔE00 0.772 · #dde0e8
  • Hosta FlowerΔE00 0.837 · #dcdde7
  • Frosty FogΔE00 0.848 · #dee1e9
  • White LavenderΔE00 0.882 · #e1e2eb
  • December DawnΔE00 0.97 · #dfe2ea
  • Winter IceΔE00 1.004 · #dbdfe9
  • Smell of LavenderΔE00 1.008 · #dce0ea
  • Inked SilkΔE00 1.053 · #d9dce4
  • Water IrisΔE00 1.112 · #e2e3eb
  • Sweet HarbourΔE00 1.138 · #d9dde7

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