White Bullet
#dfdfda
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
#dfdfda
RGB
223, 223, 218
OKLCh
90.2% 0.007 106.5°
CIELAB (D50)
88.7, -0.7, 2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 75 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.6; on black, Lc -87.0. 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
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777773 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
#dfdfda
protanopia
#dfdfda · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#dfdfda · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#dfdfda · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Kitten at ΔE00 0.478: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White KittenΔE00 0.478 · #dfdfdb
- City BrumeΔE00 0.535 · #e0e0dc
- Whisper SoftlyΔE00 0.556 · #dfded9
- Tundra FrostΔE00 0.635 · #e1e1db
- StatuesqueΔE00 0.652 · #e0dfd9
- Night WhiteΔE00 0.666 · #e1e1dd
- Fleur de SelΔE00 0.723 · #dcddd8
- Galactic MediatorΔE00 0.769 · #e0dfdb
- Reserved WhiteΔE00 0.944 · #e0e0d9
- Nebulous WhiteΔE00 1.038 · #dedfdc
- Frosty WhiteΔE00 1.046 · #ddddd6
- Beryl PearlΔE00 1.082 · #e2e3df
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.