HueComb

Let It Snow

#d8f1f4

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

#d8f1f4

RGB

216, 241, 244

OKLCh

94.1% 0.026 205.4°

CIELAB (D50)

93.4, -8.0, -4.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.6; on black, Lc -95.6. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.5 and 11.4 and 14.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#647b7e 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

#d8f1f4

protanopia

#eeeef4 · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#eaeaf5 · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#e5e5ff · ΔE00 14.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSparkling River at ΔE00 1.144: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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