HueComb

Silky Mint

#d7ecd9

A green 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

#d7ecd9

RGB

215, 236, 217

OKLCh

92.2% 0.034 148.0°

CIELAB (D50)

91.4, -9.8, 6.8

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 24% 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 12.1; on black, Lc -91.9. 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 8.5 and 8.8 and 21.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.89:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#697b6b 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

#d7ecd9

protanopia

#eaead9 · ΔE00 8.5

deuteranopia

#e6e6d9 · ΔE00 8.8

tritanopia

#e2e2ff · ΔE00 21.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Katsura at ΔE00 0.591: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light KatsuraΔE00 0.591 · #d6ead8
  • Jade MistΔE00 0.912 · #d6e9d7
  • Chic GreenΔE00 1.04 · #d8ebd6
  • Dewmist DelightΔE00 1.193 · #dceedb
  • Light Spring BurstΔE00 1.264 · #d6e8d5
  • Venetian PearlΔE00 1.301 · #d2ead5
  • Herbal MistΔE00 1.312 · #d2e6d3
  • Winter FreshΔE00 1.324 · #d6eedd
  • SplashdownΔE00 1.341 · #d4e8d8
  • PondscapeΔE00 1.392 · #d7efde
  • TaraΔE00 1.408 · #def1dd
  • Green BrocadeΔE00 1.443 · #daf1e0

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