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#dee9f4
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
#dee9f4
RGB
222, 233, 244
OKLCh
92.9% 0.019 248.0°
CIELAB (D50)
91.8, -2.2, -6.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.4; on black, Lc -92.6. 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 5.4 and 5.8 and 8.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7882 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
#dee9f4
protanopia
#e8e8f4 · ΔE00 5.4
deuteranopia
#e6e6f4 · ΔE00 5.8
tritanopia
#e4e4ff · ΔE00 8.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSt. Petersburg at ΔE00 0.456: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- St. PetersburgΔE00 0.456 · #dee8f3
- Harbour AfternoonΔE00 0.838 · #e0e9f3
- IcebergΔE00 1.167 · #dae4ee
- Azureish WhiteΔE00 1.232 · #dbe9f4
- Space Wolves GreyΔE00 1.296 · #dae6ef
- Icicle VeilΔE00 1.356 · #d9e7f2
- Ocean AirΔE00 1.36 · #dae4ed
- Blooming AsterΔE00 1.588 · #d7e2ee
- IcelandicΔE00 1.657 · #dae4ec
- HuskyΔE00 1.744 · #e0ebfa
- Wind ForceΔE00 1.815 · #d5e2ee
- Snow ShadowΔE00 1.832 · #d7e4ed
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.