First Snow
#e8eff8
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
#e8eff8
RGB
232, 239, 248
OKLCh
95.0% 0.014 254.6°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, -1.2, -5.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.4; on black, Lc -96.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#71777f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e8eff8
protanopia
#eeeef8 · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#ededf8 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#ececff · ΔE00 6.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCotton Boll at ΔE00 1.251: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cotton BollΔE00 1.251 · #e7effb
- Clear VisionΔE00 1.432 · #e7f0f7
- Coconut WhiteΔE00 1.444 · #e9edf6
- Placebo BlueΔE00 1.447 · #ebf4fc
- Insignia WhiteΔE00 1.587 · #ecf3f9
- AirportΔE00 1.597 · #edf2f8
- Harbour AfternoonΔE00 1.624 · #e0e9f3
- Moon WhiteΔE00 1.75 · #eaf4fc
- Himalaya PeaksΔE00 1.924 · #e2eaf0
- Radiant MoonΔE00 2.01 · #e0e6f0
- Bellflower BlueΔE00 2.06 · #e1e9ef
- Alice BlueΔE00 2.115 · #f0f8ff
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.