HueComb

Winter’s Fury

#c7ccd8

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

#c7ccd8

RGB

199, 204, 216

OKLCh

84.5% 0.018 267.8°

CIELAB (D50)

81.9, -0.1, -6.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 23% 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 27.4; on black, Lc -75.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#727782 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

#c7ccd8

protanopia

#cbcbd8 · ΔE00 2.6

deuteranopia

#cbcbd8 · ΔE00 2.8

tritanopia

#cacae5 · ΔE00 6.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPost Apocalyptic Cloud at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Post Apocalyptic CloudΔE00 0.497 · #c8cdd8
  • Link WaterΔE00 0.766 · #c7cdd8
  • Pale ShaleΔE00 0.851 · #cacfdc
  • DebonaireΔE00 1.066 · #cbd0dd
  • Multnomah FallsΔE00 1.266 · #ccd0dd
  • Steam BathΔE00 1.335 · #ccd0da
  • Gentle BlueΔE00 1.445 · #cdd2de
  • Steel MistΔE00 1.46 · #c6ceda
  • Hūi Sè GreyΔE00 1.538 · #c1c6d3
  • French SilkΔE00 1.615 · #c0c6d2
  • Lavender SteelΔE00 1.685 · #c6cbdb
  • Floral NoteΔE00 1.755 · #cdcfdb

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