HueComb

Frosty Pink

#dfe9e3

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

#dfe9e3

RGB

223, 233, 227

OKLCh

92.5% 0.013 159.9°

CIELAB (D50)

91.5, -4.3, 1.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 57 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 11% 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 12.0; on black, Lc -92.0. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 14.9 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#707974 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

#dfe9e3

protanopia

#e8e8e3 · ΔE00 4.8

deuteranopia

#e6e6e3 · ΔE00 5.0

tritanopia

#e4e4ff · ΔE00 14.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelicate Mist at ΔE00 0.433: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Delicate MistΔE00 0.433 · #e1ebe5
  • Sandwashed GlassshardΔE00 0.496 · #dee8e3
  • Lost in IstanbulΔE00 0.503 · #dee8e1
  • Pirate CoastΔE00 0.617 · #dde7e2
  • Sea PearlΔE00 0.64 · #e0e9e4
  • Hallowed HushΔE00 0.647 · #e2ebe5
  • Fresh DayΔE00 0.916 · #dfe9e5
  • Porcelain MintΔE00 0.994 · #dbe7e1
  • Minified GreenΔE00 1.029 · #dde8e0
  • Melting SnowmanΔE00 1.096 · #dae5e0
  • Cautious JadeΔE00 1.098 · #dae4de
  • Molten IceΔE00 1.203 · #e1ede6

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