HueComb

Second Wind

#dfece9

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

#dfece9

RGB

223, 236, 233

OKLCh

93.3% 0.014 180.7°

CIELAB (D50)

92.3, -4.9, -0.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 59 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 14% 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 10.5; on black, Lc -93.6. 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 6.1 and 6.5 and 13.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7977 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

#dfece9

protanopia

#ebebe9 · ΔE00 6.1

deuteranopia

#e8e8e9 · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#e6e6ff · ΔE00 13.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThawed Out at ΔE00 0.646: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Thawed OutΔE00 0.646 · #e1eeec
  • HonestyΔE00 0.661 · #dfebe9
  • Roman WhiteΔE00 0.883 · #deedeb
  • Teton BreezeΔE00 1.022 · #dfeae8
  • Club SodaΔE00 1.029 · #e2edeb
  • Himalayan MistΔE00 1.081 · #e1f0ed
  • Aqua TintΔE00 1.186 · #e5f1ee
  • Homoeopathic BlueΔE00 1.207 · #dbe7e3
  • Chilly WhiteΔE00 1.25 · #e5f1ed
  • Tulle Soft BlueΔE00 1.267 · #d9e7e5
  • TranquilΔE00 1.274 · #ddede9
  • Jack FrostΔE00 1.315 · #dae6e3

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