HueComb

Distant Wind Chime

#eaeff2

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

#eaeff2

RGB

234, 239, 242

OKLCh

94.9% 0.007 233.6°

CIELAB (D50)

94.1, -1.3, -2.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 23% 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 7.5; 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 7.5 — 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

#73777a 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

#eaeff2

protanopia

#eeeef2 · ΔE00 2.6

deuteranopia

#eeeef2 · ΔE00 2.8

tritanopia

#ededff · ΔE00 7.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPowder White at ΔE00 0.707: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Powder WhiteΔE00 0.707 · #ebf1f5
  • Walls of SantoriniΔE00 0.836 · #e9edf1
  • Icewind DaleΔE00 0.857 · #e8ecee
  • BlizzardΔE00 1.18 · #e5ebed
  • Maui MistΔE00 1.207 · #eef2f3
  • Calla LilyΔE00 1.21 · #e4eaed
  • Lagoon MirrorΔE00 1.296 · #eaedee
  • Child of LightΔE00 1.334 · #f0f4f8
  • Snow CloudΔE00 1.385 · #e5e9eb
  • Morning MistΔE00 1.468 · #e5edf1
  • Springtime RainΔE00 1.513 · #ebeef3
  • Dipped in Cloudy DreamsΔE00 1.52 · #e9eeee

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