HueComb

Wind Chime

#dfe0e2

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

#dfe0e2

RGB

223, 224, 226

OKLCh

90.6% 0.003 264.5°

CIELAB (D50)

89.1, -0.1, -1.1

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 7% 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 15.9; on black, Lc -87.8. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767778 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

#dfe0e2

protanopia

#e0e0e2 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#e0e0e2 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#e0e0e5 · ΔE00 1.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoothing White at ΔE00 0.445: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Soothing WhiteΔE00 0.445 · #e1e2e4
  • Wayward WindΔE00 0.547 · #dedfe2
  • Yín Bái SilverΔE00 0.556 · #e0e1e2
  • JupiterΔE00 0.724 · #e1e1e2
  • Gentle GreyΔE00 0.795 · #dee0e1
  • Script WhiteΔE00 0.893 · #dbdddf
  • Cold WindΔE00 0.995 · #e1e3e4
  • Windswept BeachΔE00 1.013 · #e3e4e5
  • Porcelain JasperΔE00 1.082 · #dfe2e4
  • January DawnΔE00 1.111 · #dfe2e5
  • Kingly CloudΔE00 1.166 · #dedede
  • Lilac MistΔE00 1.232 · #e4e4e7

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