HueComb

Après-Ski

#ced5e4

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

#ced5e4

RGB

206, 213, 228

OKLCh

87.2% 0.022 265.7°

CIELAB (D50)

85.1, -0.3, -8.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 35% 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 22.4; on black, Lc -80.9. 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 8.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#717784 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

#ced5e4

protanopia

#d4d4e4 · ΔE00 3.6

deuteranopia

#d3d3e4 · ΔE00 3.8

tritanopia

#d2d2f6 · ΔE00 8.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorning Chill at ΔE00 0.416: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Morning ChillΔE00 0.416 · #ced5e3
  • Jewellery WhiteΔE00 0.542 · #ced6e6
  • Sweet EmilyΔE00 1.14 · #cbd1e1
  • Mother of Pearl SilverΔE00 1.283 · #ccd6e6
  • Monet LilyΔE00 1.393 · #cdd7e6
  • Light Iced LavenderΔE00 1.451 · #d0d4e3
  • Gentle BlueΔE00 1.473 · #cdd2de
  • DebonaireΔE00 1.527 · #cbd0dd
  • Pale PeriwinkleΔE00 1.541 · #c8d2e2
  • Snowy ShadowΔE00 1.567 · #d3dbec
  • English Channel FogΔE00 1.587 · #cbd3e6
  • Light CandelaΔE00 1.655 · #c9d2df

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