HueComb

Hint of Blue

#cee1f2

A blue 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

#cee1f2

RGB

206, 225, 242

OKLCh

90.1% 0.031 245.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.5, -4.0, -10.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.7; on black, Lc -86.9. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.7 and 9.2 and 11.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.68:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.68:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#687988 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

#cee1f2

protanopia

#dfdff2 · ΔE00 8.7

deuteranopia

#dcdcf2 · ΔE00 9.2

tritanopia

#d8d8ff · ΔE00 11.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Breeze at ΔE00 0.964: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light BreezeΔE00 0.964 · #cfe0f2
  • Salty IceΔE00 1.057 · #cce2f3
  • First Shade of BlueΔE00 1.064 · #cbe1f2
  • Vanishing BlueΔE00 1.081 · #cfdfef
  • Tuğçe SilverΔE00 1.093 · #ccddee
  • Weathered BlueΔE00 1.097 · #d2e2f2
  • Cold TurbulenceΔE00 1.125 · #cfe1ef
  • Blue BootiesΔE00 1.231 · #c8ddee
  • Arctic RainΔE00 1.763 · #c7daed
  • Brisa de MarΔE00 1.766 · #d2e0ef
  • Alaskan SkiesΔE00 1.771 · #cddced
  • Dwindling DenimΔE00 1.986 · #cce1ee

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