HueComb

Moonwalk

#bebec4

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

#bebec4

RGB

190, 190, 196

OKLCh

80.3% 0.008 286.2°

CIELAB (D50)

77.1, 0.8, -3.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 8% 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 34.8; on black, Lc -67.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.85:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#76767c 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

#bebec4

protanopia

#bebec4 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#bebec4 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#bebec4 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRocket Man at ΔE00 0.483: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Rocket ManΔE00 0.483 · #bebec3
  • Pied Wagtail GreyΔE00 0.709 · #bebdc2
  • Mithril SilverΔE00 0.786 · #bbbbc1
  • GhostΔE00 1.181 · #c0bfc7
  • Silver FoxΔE00 1.218 · #bdbcc4
  • Mote of DustΔE00 1.23 · #c1c1c5
  • Streamlined GreyΔE00 1.234 · #b9bac0
  • French GreyΔE00 1.375 · #bfbdc1
  • Great WhiteΔE00 1.408 · #bdbdc6
  • Sparkling MetalΔE00 1.594 · #c3c3c7
  • AnonΔE00 1.606 · #bdbfc8
  • SilverwareΔE00 1.642 · #b8b8bf

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