HueComb

Silent Snowfall

#eef7fa

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

#eef7fa

RGB

238, 247, 250

OKLCh

97.0% 0.010 219.6°

CIELAB (D50)

96.6, -2.7, -2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -101.5. 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 6.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#70787b 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

#eef7fa

protanopia

#f6f6fa · ΔE00 4.4

deuteranopia

#f4f4fa · ΔE00 4.8

tritanopia

#f3f3ff · ΔE00 6.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDistant Horizon at ΔE00 0.959: 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.