#E9F5EE · #EFF1FC
Four independent scores (read the one that fits your goal): Readability 0/100 (fail) · Harmony 36/100 (clashing) · Distinguishable 8/100 (hard to tell apart) · Match 78/100 (close). There is no single “good/bad” — a pair can clash for text yet be great for an outfit.
White Smoke and Alice Blue are very close (ΔE 10). They have distinctly different hues (86° apart) and their lightness is similar, so they read as two same-weight colours.
White Smoke text on Alice Blue: 1.01:1 (Fail); Alice Blue text on White Smoke: 1.01:1 (Fail). Neither meets AA at body size — nudging one color to #66716B clears it.
Clashing — awkward hue gap — tends to clash (harmony 36/100). This is about how they look together (clothing, interiors, branding), independent of text contrast.
Not at body size — the best direction is only 1.0:1, below the 4.5:1 minimum. Nudging one colour to #66716B clears AA.
Their CIE76 ΔE is about 10 — very close.
close but visibly different (ΔE 10.0).
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