Where There Is Smoke
#c7ccce
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
#c7ccce
RGB
199, 204, 206
OKLCh
84.2% 0.006 223.5°
CIELAB (D50)
81.7, -1.5, -1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 6% 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 27.8; on black, Lc -75.1. 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 8.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737779 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
#c7ccce
protanopia
#cbcbce · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#cbcbce · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#cacadc · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSacred Spring at ΔE00 0.797: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sacred SpringΔE00 0.797 · #c7cbce
- Porpoise FinΔE00 1.006 · #c8cbcd
- Harp StringsΔE00 1.086 · #cbd0d1
- Grey ScreenΔE00 1.163 · #c6caca
- Whisper of SmokeΔE00 1.185 · #cbcecf
- CallistoΔE00 1.257 · #cacfd3
- Lunar RaysΔE00 1.338 · #caced2
- Manhattan MistΔE00 1.536 · #cccfcf
- Dawn’s Early LightΔE00 1.585 · #c9ced3
- AerodynamicΔE00 1.634 · #cacecd
- Iron FistΔE00 1.718 · #cbcdcd
- MistyΔE00 1.756 · #cdd2d2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.