Water Lily
#dde3d5
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
#dde3d5
RGB
221, 227, 213
OKLCh
90.7% 0.020 125.8°
CIELAB (D50)
89.5, -3.9, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 47 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 15.4; on black, Lc -88.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#73796c 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
#dde3d5
protanopia
#e2e2d5 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#e0e0e7 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSounds of Nature at ΔE00 0.443: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sounds of NatureΔE00 0.443 · #dfe5d7
- GreeningΔE00 0.642 · #dfe4d5
- Lightest SkyΔE00 0.883 · #dce4d6
- Light MistΔE00 0.99 · #dce1d5
- White MintΔE00 1.035 · #e0e7da
- Touch of LimeΔE00 1.059 · #e1e5d7
- FetaΔE00 1.108 · #dbe0d0
- Cloudy DayΔE00 1.118 · #dfe6da
- Light Iced AniseedΔE00 1.124 · #d8ded0
- Light LigadoΔE00 1.173 · #d9e0d0
- Pale VistaΔE00 1.209 · #d8decf
- Summer RainΔE00 1.221 · #e1e8db
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.