HueComb

Sip of Mint

#dedfc9

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

#dedfc9

RGB

222, 223, 201

OKLCh

89.7% 0.029 109.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.3, -3.2, 10.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 15% 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 17.4; on black, Lc -86.2. 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

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.50:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.50:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777864 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

#dedfc9

protanopia

#dfdfc9 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#dfdfc9 · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#dfdfcc · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVintage Beige at ΔE00 0.705: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Vintage BeigeΔE00 0.705 · #dfe1cc
  • Washed SageΔE00 1.059 · #dedfcc
  • Positive EnergyΔE00 1.288 · #e1e2cf
  • Desert SpringsΔE00 1.469 · #dcddcb
  • Light SandbankΔE00 1.518 · #dedcc6
  • I Miss YouΔE00 1.612 · #dddbc5
  • Veltliner WhiteΔE00 1.618 · #d7d8c3
  • Persian BlindsΔE00 1.619 · #e3e1cc
  • Emerging LeafΔE00 1.637 · #e1e1cf
  • Light Fern GreenΔE00 1.671 · #e6e6d0
  • Gentle FrostΔE00 1.715 · #dce0cd
  • Silver LaurelΔE00 1.719 · #d8dcc8

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