Hint of Green

#dfeade

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

#dfeade

RGB

223, 234, 222

OKLCh

92.5% 0.020 143.0°

CIELAB (D50)

91.6, -5.4, 4.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 51 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 14% 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 11.8; on black, Lc -92.2. 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 5.0 and 5.3 and 16.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#70796f 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

#dfeade

protanopia

#e9e9de · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#e7e7de · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#e5e5fd · ΔE00 16.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMeadow Light at ΔE00 0.593: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Meadow LightΔE00 0.593 · #dfe9de
  • Loggia LightsΔE00 0.629 · #e1ebde
  • WatermarkΔE00 0.835 · #dee9df
  • Frozen GrassΔE00 0.88 · #deeadc
  • Lighter MintΔE00 0.883 · #dfebdd
  • Green TeaseΔE00 0.891 · #e3ede0
  • Pine FrostΔE00 0.917 · #deeae0
  • Sign of SpringΔE00 0.92 · #e3ede2
  • Green WhisperΔE00 0.968 · #e3eee3
  • Molly GreenΔE00 1.099 · #e3efe3
  • Diluted GreenΔE00 1.159 · #ddeae0
  • Mint EmulsionΔE00 1.173 · #dfeadb

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