New Heights
#d0e5f2
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
#d0e5f2
RGB
208, 229, 242
OKLCh
91.0% 0.029 234.9°
CIELAB (D50)
89.7, -5.3, -8.8
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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.8; on black, Lc -89.0. 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 9.4 and 10.1 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#677985 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
#d0e5f2
protanopia
#e3e3f2 · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#dfdff2 · ΔE00 10.1
tritanopia
#dbdbff · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDwindling Denim at ΔE00 0.894: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dwindling DenimΔE00 0.894 · #cce1ee
- Freezing VapourΔE00 0.962 · #d4e9f5
- First FrostΔE00 1.006 · #cfe5f0
- Atlantic BreezeΔE00 1.006 · #cbe1ee
- Soft CloudΔE00 1.273 · #d0e3ed
- CO₂ΔE00 1.347 · #cadfec
- Mystic HarbourΔE00 1.355 · #d2e4ee
- Pattens BlueΔE00 1.357 · #d3e5ef
- Cold TurbulenceΔE00 1.476 · #cfe1ef
- Caribbean MistΔE00 1.596 · #cadeea
- Niagara FallsΔE00 1.644 · #cbe3ee
- Wind of ChangeΔE00 1.752 · #c8deea
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.