Gentle Cold
#c3ece9
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c3ece9
RGB
195, 236, 233
OKLCh
91.3% 0.043 191.0°
CIELAB (D50)
90.4, -14.2, -3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% 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 13.5; on black, Lc -90.3. 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 14.7 and 16.1 and 21.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#587e7b 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
#c3ece9
protanopia
#e8e8e9 · ΔE00 14.7
deuteranopia
#e1e1ea · ΔE00 16.1
tritanopia
#d9d9ff · ΔE00 21.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorning Sky at ΔE00 1.141: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Morning SkyΔE00 1.141 · #c7ecea
- Luxor BlueΔE00 1.178 · #bde9e5
- Path to the SkyΔE00 1.284 · #c4eee8
- Tropical WaterfallΔE00 1.401 · #bee7e2
- Pool PartyΔE00 1.548 · #bee9e3
- Saline WaterΔE00 1.902 · #c5e8e7
- Cool JazzΔE00 1.994 · #bee7e0
- Bleached AquaΔE00 2.028 · #bce3df
- Windwood SpringΔE00 2.135 · #c2e5e0
- Icy BlueΔE00 2.166 · #ccedea
- On Cloud NineΔE00 2.209 · #c2e7e8
- Tame TealΔE00 2.229 · #c1e6df
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.