Cityscape
#dae3e7
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
#dae3e7
RGB
218, 227, 231
OKLCh
91.0% 0.011 226.0°
CIELAB (D50)
89.6, -2.6, -3.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 53 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 19% 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 15.0; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 12.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#70787c 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
#dae3e7
protanopia
#e2e2e7 · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#e0e0e7 · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#dfdfff · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTahoe Snow at ΔE00 0.662: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tahoe SnowΔE00 0.662 · #d7e1e5
- Pearl CityΔE00 0.781 · #dce4e9
- Milk BlueΔE00 0.904 · #dce3e7
- Early FrostΔE00 0.945 · #dae3e9
- Elusive BlueΔE00 0.955 · #dde4e8
- Cloud AbyssΔE00 1.033 · #dfe7eb
- SnowcapΔE00 1.052 · #dce5eb
- Crystal BayΔE00 1.12 · #dbe2e7
- GlassineΔE00 1.133 · #d7e2e5
- Bit of BlueΔE00 1.152 · #d9e3e5
- City LightsΔE00 1.18 · #dfe6ea
- Diamond LightΔE00 1.191 · #dfe7ec
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.