Snow White
#eeffee
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
#eeffee
RGB
238, 255, 238
OKLCh
98.3% 0.029 145.4°
CIELAB (D50)
98.4, -8.0, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -104.8. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.1 and 7.4 and 13.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.04:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6c7b6c 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
#eeffee
protanopia
#fdfdee · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#fafaee · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#f7f7ff · ΔE00 13.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlacebo Green at ΔE00 0.691: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Placebo GreenΔE00 0.691 · #ebfcec
- Spring WhiteΔE00 0.731 · #ecfcec
- HoneydewΔE00 1.012 · #f0fff0
- Azure MistΔE00 1.301 · #f0fff1
- Lime SliceΔE00 1.522 · #f0fded
- Winter MistΔE00 1.621 · #e7fbec
- Nettle RashΔE00 1.901 · #e4f7e7
- After Dinner MintΔE00 2.146 · #e3f5e5
- Crème de MentheΔE00 2.217 · #f1fde9
- Aquarelle GreenΔE00 2.349 · #e2f4e4
- Frozen CivilizationΔE00 2.464 · #e1f5e5
- PanacheΔE00 2.49 · #ebf7e4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.