HueComb

Cryo Freeze

#ddece0

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

#ddece0

RGB

221, 236, 224

OKLCh

92.8% 0.023 151.6°

CIELAB (D50)

92.0, -6.8, 4.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 41 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 19% 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 11.1; on black, Lc -93.0. 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 6.6 and 6.9 and 17.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d7a70 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

#ddece0

protanopia

#eaeae0 · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#e8e8e0 · ΔE00 6.9

tritanopia

#e5e5ff · ΔE00 17.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel Smirk at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pastel SmirkΔE00 0.551 · #deece1
  • Sage SaltΔE00 0.606 · #dbebde
  • Lower GreenΔE00 0.644 · #e0efe3
  • Tint of GreenΔE00 0.779 · #dae9dc
  • Maggie’s MagicΔE00 0.816 · #ddeee2
  • Soothing VapourΔE00 0.879 · #e1efe2
  • Snowdrop ExplosionΔE00 0.987 · #e0efe1
  • Weak MintΔE00 0.997 · #e0f0e5
  • Clair de LuneΔE00 1.048 · #dbe9df
  • Diluted GreenΔE00 1.144 · #ddeae0
  • Sparkling BrookΔE00 1.235 · #dceee3
  • Wishy-Washy LichenΔE00 1.254 · #deede4

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