HueComb

Festive Ferret

#dfdfe5

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

#dfdfe5

RGB

223, 223, 229

OKLCh

90.5% 0.008 286.2°

CIELAB (D50)

89.0, 0.8, -2.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 48 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 17% 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 16.1; on black, Lc -87.5. 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

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76767c 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

#dfdfe5

protanopia

#dfdfe5 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#dfdfe5 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#dfdfe5 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Elephant at ΔE00 0.508: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • White ElephantΔE00 0.508 · #dedee5
  • Grey PlacidityΔE00 0.657 · #dddde2
  • Violet EchoΔE00 0.756 · #dfdee5
  • Rare OrchidΔE00 0.896 · #dbdce2
  • Azure HintΔE00 0.915 · #dddce1
  • Violet WhiteΔE00 0.99 · #e2e3e9
  • Lady’s SlipperΔE00 1.007 · #e3e3ea
  • Translucent WhiteΔE00 1.071 · #e4e3e9
  • Timid CloudΔE00 1.088 · #dcdde5
  • Big Fish to FryΔE00 1.088 · #dadbe1
  • February FrostΔE00 1.1 · #e0dee3
  • Sweet FlowerΔE00 1.139 · #e2e2ea

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