HueComb

Out Cold

#e2ecf2

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

#e2ecf2

RGB

226, 236, 242

OKLCh

93.7% 0.013 233.7°

CIELAB (D50)

92.8, -2.6, -4.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 38% 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 9.7; on black, Lc -94.4. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 9.4 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.20:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f787d 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

#e2ecf2

protanopia

#ebebf2 · ΔE00 4.9

deuteranopia

#e9e9f2 · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#e7e7ff · ΔE00 9.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHimalaya Peaks at ΔE00 0.934: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Himalaya PeaksΔE00 0.934 · #e2eaf0
  • Bellflower BlueΔE00 1.031 · #e1e9ef
  • Morning MistΔE00 1.149 · #e5edf1
  • Clear VisionΔE00 1.152 · #e7f0f7
  • Moby DickΔE00 1.165 · #dde8ed
  • Morning HazeΔE00 1.171 · #e0e8ed
  • Diamond LightΔE00 1.324 · #dfe7ec
  • Sweet IllusionΔE00 1.36 · #e0e8ec
  • White FrostΔE00 1.483 · #dee6ec
  • Cloud AbyssΔE00 1.496 · #dfe7eb
  • SnowcapΔE00 1.53 · #dce5eb
  • Mystic LightΔE00 1.78 · #dde5ec

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