HueComb

Bone-Chilling

#e1f2f0

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

#e1f2f0

RGB

225, 242, 240

OKLCh

94.8% 0.018 188.4°

CIELAB (D50)

94.2, -6.1, -1.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 7.3; on black, Lc -97.0. 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 7.6 and 8.2 and 13.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6b7a78 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

#e1f2f0

protanopia

#f0f0f0 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#ededf0 · ΔE00 8.2

tritanopia

#eaeaff · ΔE00 13.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHimalayan Mist at ΔE00 0.908: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Himalayan MistΔE00 0.908 · #e1f0ed
  • Free SpiritΔE00 1 · #deeeed
  • Drifting TideΔE00 1.14 · #dfefeb
  • SoarΔE00 1.203 · #ddf0f0
  • Roman WhiteΔE00 1.216 · #deedeb
  • White GlazeΔE00 1.236 · #ddeeee
  • Ice FollyΔE00 1.373 · #dbece9
  • TranquilΔE00 1.418 · #ddede9
  • Glacier BayΔE00 1.464 · #def2ee
  • Clear DayΔE00 1.526 · #dfefea
  • Thawed OutΔE00 1.655 · #e1eeec
  • Supernova ResiduesΔE00 1.657 · #d9ece9

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