HueComb

Antarctic Love

#eddee6

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

#eddee6

RGB

237, 222, 230

OKLCh

91.5% 0.019 344.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, 6.3, -2.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 28 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 35% 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 14.7; on black, Lc -89.1. 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 6.9 and 7.3 and 25.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80737a 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

#eddee6

protanopia

#e0e0e6 · ΔE00 6.9

deuteranopia

#e3e3e6 · ΔE00 7.3

tritanopia

#e6e6b1 · ΔE00 25.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFairy Tail at ΔE00 0.222: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fairy TailΔE00 0.222 · #ecdde5
  • Dwindling DamonΔE00 0.472 · #efdfe7
  • Weak PinkΔE00 0.579 · #ecdee5
  • Wishy-Washy MauveΔE00 0.606 · #eddde4
  • Struck by LightningΔE00 0.774 · #f0e1e8
  • Twinkled PinkΔE00 0.912 · #e9dbe4
  • Pink ProposalΔE00 0.938 · #f1e0e8
  • Purple EmulsionΔE00 1.065 · #eadce2
  • Wishy-Washy PinkΔE00 1.222 · #f0dee7
  • Heaven SentΔE00 1.301 · #eee1eb
  • Iced MauveΔE00 1.413 · #e8dce3
  • Mellow FlowerΔE00 1.438 · #f1dfe9

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