Glacial Ice

#eae9e7

Cool, airy gray with near-white clarity

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About Glacial Ice

Glacial Ice is what happens when you strip gray down to almost nothing, it's so light it barely registers as a color at all, sitting closer to white than anything else in this family. Where Cow's leans toward cream and keeps a careful gray restraint, this one just disappears. It's nearly neutral without the effort, the background that doesn't make you second-guess the choice.

Reach for it in data dashboards, financial platforms, and content management systems where you need maximum contrast without going full white. It works in editorial templates and long-form reading interfaces too, type snaps against it, charts sit cleanly on it, nothing competes. Use it when you've hit that moment where pure white feels too harsh but you can't afford the character that actual warmth introduces.

The catch: because there's almost no color here, it's extremely sensitive to monitor temperature. On a cool screen it'll sit perfectly neutral. On a warm one it drifts toward . Test it locked to your reference setup before committing it to anything large.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

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1.21:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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1.11:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

Aa
14.60:1AAA

On Black #000000

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17.31:1AAA

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