HueComb

Coast to Coast

#bdd4d1

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

#bdd4d1

RGB

189, 212, 209

OKLCh

85.2% 0.025 187.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.1, -8.4, -1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 17% 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 25.5; on black, Lc -77.6. 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 9.8 and 10.6 and 21.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.50:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.50:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#667b78 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

#bdd4d1

protanopia

#d2d2d1 · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#ceced1 · ΔE00 10.6

tritanopia

#c9c9ff · ΔE00 21.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAquatic Edge at ΔE00 0.995: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Aquatic EdgeΔE00 0.995 · #bfd6d1
  • Breath of GreenΔE00 1.165 · #bdd1ce
  • Malaysian MistΔE00 1.327 · #b8d1d0
  • Viridian GreenΔE00 1.372 · #bcd7d4
  • Wingsuit WindΔE00 1.485 · #bad5d4
  • AntarcticaΔE00 1.51 · #bfd2d0
  • Déjà VuΔE00 1.693 · #bed1cc
  • Lakeside FindΔE00 1.782 · #b7d1d1
  • Icy WaterfallΔE00 1.848 · #c0d2d0
  • RelaxΔE00 1.922 · #b9d2d3
  • Cool MintΔE00 2.039 · #c6dad5
  • Morning Dew WhiteΔE00 2.044 · #c6dbd6

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