HueComb

King of Waves

#c6dce7

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

#c6dce7

RGB

198, 220, 231

OKLCh

88.1% 0.028 229.2°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, -5.9, -8.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 29 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 38% 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 20.2; on black, Lc -83.2. 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 10.5 and 14.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#667a84 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

#c6dce7

protanopia

#dadae7 · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#d6d6e7 · ΔE00 10.5

tritanopia

#d2d2ff · ΔE00 14.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWind of Change at ΔE00 0.63: 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.