Pale Silver #D8E2DC

About this color

#D8E2DC is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 90%, its chroma 0.013. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Pale Silver. Black text reads best on it, at 15.83:1.

Colors that go with Pale Silver

Matches found by rotating Pale Silver around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Pale Silver is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Pale Silver

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Pale Silver, closest first.

• Macaron Cloud
• Lunar Hours
• Drizzle Afternoon
• Dove and Drizzle
• Harbour and Mist
• Taffy Box
• Alexandrite Treasury
• Gallery Print

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Pale Silver, with their ΔE distance.

• Platinum #E0E1DD ΔE 0.011
• Gainsboro #DCDCDC ΔE 0.016
• Light Gray #D3D3D3 ΔE 0.039
• Cadet Gray #CED4DA ΔE 0.040
• Lavender #E6E6FA ΔE 0.046
• Champagne #F7E7CE ΔE 0.049
• Powder Blue #B0E0E6 ΔE 0.051
• Lemon Meringue #EAE2B7 ΔE 0.052

More about Pale Silver

• Shades of gray
• What gray means

How to make Pale Silver

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts white
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #DADADA, a difference of ΔE 0.021 from Pale Silver. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Silver in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Pale Silver

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F6F5

   oklch(97.1% 0.002 165.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7EBE9

   oklch(93.6% 0.005 165)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #D8E2DC

   oklch(90.3% 0.013 159.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B8C4BD

   oklch(80.9% 0.016 160.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #93A69B

   oklch(70.7% 0.027 160.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #789082

   oklch(63% 0.034 159.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #607B6C

   oklch(55.7% 0.039 160.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #4F675A

   oklch(49% 0.035 161.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #415449

   oklch(42.6% 0.03 159.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #37463D

    oklch(37.8% 0.025 158.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #202924

    oklch(27% 0.016 160.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Silver with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.