HueComb

Vanishing Point

#ddeedd

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

#ddeedd

RGB

221, 238, 221

OKLCh

93.2% 0.029 145.3°

CIELAB (D50)

92.5, -8.1, 6.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 23% 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 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 7.2 and 7.5 and 19.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6c7b6c 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

#ddeedd

protanopia

#ececdd · ΔE00 7.2

deuteranopia

#e9e9dd · ΔE00 7.5

tritanopia

#e6e6ff · ΔE00 19.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCottage Green at ΔE00 0.615: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cottage GreenΔE00 0.615 · #dcecdc
  • Ice-Cold WhiteΔE00 1.221 · #dff0e2
  • Misty MintΔE00 1.232 · #deecda
  • Distant LandscapeΔE00 1.245 · #e1efdd
  • Mint GrasshopperΔE00 1.3 · #e2f0e0
  • Hill GiantΔE00 1.316 · #e0eedf
  • Aquarelle GreenΔE00 1.352 · #e2f4e4
  • Snowdrop ExplosionΔE00 1.356 · #e0efe1
  • Ghost LichenΔE00 1.372 · #dfedda
  • Sea MistΔE00 1.374 · #dbeee0
  • Frosted MintΔE00 1.503 · #e2f2e4
  • BathΔE00 1.519 · #d8e9db

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