HueComb

Ghost Lichen

#dfedda

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

#dfedda

RGB

223, 237, 218

OKLCh

93.0% 0.029 137.4°

CIELAB (D50)

92.3, -7.3, 7.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 20% 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 10.7; on black, Lc -93.4. 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 6.0 and 6.2 and 19.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6e7a69 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

#dfedda

protanopia

#ebebda · ΔE00 6.0

deuteranopia

#e9e9da · ΔE00 6.2

tritanopia

#e6e6ff · ΔE00 19.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMisty Mint at ΔE00 0.408: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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