Bright Star
#dde2e6
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
#dde2e6
RGB
221, 226, 230
OKLCh
91.0% 0.008 241.7°
CIELAB (D50)
89.6, -1.2, -2.6
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 16% 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 15.1; on black, Lc -88.7. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#73777b 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
#dde2e6
protanopia
#e1e1e6 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#e1e1e6 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#e0e0f4 · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWind Blown at ΔE00 0.503: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wind BlownΔE00 0.503 · #dde3e7
- Snow BlanketΔE00 0.619 · #dde3e8
- Cosmic DustΔE00 0.755 · #dce2e5
- Cold LightΔE00 0.769 · #dde3e6
- Bleached WhiteΔE00 0.809 · #dfe3e8
- ChickweedΔE00 0.864 · #d9dfe3
- Milk BlueΔE00 0.944 · #dce3e7
- Crystal BayΔE00 0.952 · #dbe2e7
- Elusive BlueΔE00 0.996 · #dde4e8
- January DawnΔE00 1 · #dfe2e5
- Aura WhiteΔE00 1.006 · #dee2e4
- Winter HavenΔE00 1.014 · #e1e6eb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.