City Dweller
#c0b9ac
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c0b9ac
RGB
192, 185, 172
OKLCh
78.8% 0.020 83.1°
CIELAB (D50)
75.5, 0.9, 7.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 12% 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 37.5; on black, Lc -65.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d766a 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
#c0b9ac
protanopia
#babaac · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#bbbbac · ΔE00 4.0
tritanopia
#bcbc92 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Loam at ΔE00 0.855: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bright LoamΔE00 0.855 · #c1b9aa
- Row HouseΔE00 0.91 · #bfb8ad
- Ghost TownΔE00 0.956 · #beb6a8
- Sierra MadreΔE00 1.045 · #c2bcae
- Techno TaupeΔE00 1.114 · #bfb9aa
- HeiferΔE00 1.173 · #c3bdb1
- Cloud Over LondonΔE00 1.18 · #c2bcb1
- Light LichenΔE00 1.246 · #bfb6a9
- Jogging PathΔE00 1.258 · #c0b9a9
- Analytical GreyΔE00 1.343 · #bfb6a7
- Anew GreyΔE00 1.353 · #beb6ab
- ViaductΔE00 1.392 · #c1bbb1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.