HueComb

Pastel Smirk

#deece1

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

#deece1

RGB

222, 236, 225

OKLCh

93.0% 0.021 152.2°

CIELAB (D50)

92.1, -6.3, 3.7

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 18% 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 10.9; on black, Lc -93.1. 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 6.2 and 6.6 and 17.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.19:1. 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

#deece1

protanopia

#eaeae1 · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#e8e8e1 · ΔE00 6.6

tritanopia

#e5e5ff · ΔE00 17.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

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

  • Cryo FreezeΔE00 0.551 · #ddece0
  • Diluted GreenΔE00 0.667 · #ddeae0
  • Clair de LuneΔE00 0.752 · #dbe9df
  • Lower GreenΔE00 0.79 · #e0efe3
  • Pine FrostΔE00 0.937 · #deeae0
  • Wishy-Washy LichenΔE00 0.94 · #deede4
  • Soothing VapourΔE00 0.999 · #e1efe2
  • Weak MintΔE00 1.071 · #e0f0e5
  • Sage SaltΔE00 1.137 · #dbebde
  • Country MistΔE00 1.138 · #dfebe2
  • Tint of GreenΔE00 1.145 · #dae9dc
  • Molly GreenΔE00 1.154 · #e3efe3

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