HueComb

Winter’s Breath

#deeced

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

#deeced

RGB

222, 236, 237

OKLCh

93.3% 0.015 202.0°

CIELAB (D50)

92.4, -4.7, -2.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 10.4; on black, Lc -93.7. 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 6.5 and 7.1 and 12.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6d797a 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

#deeced

protanopia

#eaeaed · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#e8e8ed · ΔE00 7.1

tritanopia

#e5e5ff · ΔE00 12.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Flax at ΔE00 0.517: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Blue FlaxΔE00 0.517 · #ddebed
  • Wave CrestΔE00 0.715 · #dce9ea
  • CarefreeΔE00 0.834 · #dce9e9
  • Tibetan SkyΔE00 1.052 · #dbeaed
  • Soft Blue WhiteΔE00 1.223 · #dae7e9
  • Azul PrimaveraΔE00 1.316 · #e2eff2
  • White GlazeΔE00 1.327 · #ddeeee
  • Free SpiritΔE00 1.336 · #deeeed
  • PreludeΔE00 1.369 · #dfebee
  • Smoke and MirrorsΔE00 1.411 · #d9e6e8
  • Cold Soft BlueΔE00 1.468 · #d9e7e6
  • CloudΔE00 1.476 · #e4f0ef

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