HueComb

Foil

#c0c3c4

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

#c0c3c4

RGB

192, 195, 196

OKLCh

81.5% 0.004 219.5°

CIELAB (D50)

78.6, -0.9, -0.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.6; on black, Lc -70.0. 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 5.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.77:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.84:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.84:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#747778 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

#c0c3c4

protanopia

#c3c3c4 · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#c2c2c4 · ΔE00 1.8

tritanopia

#c2c2cd · ΔE00 5.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGalactic Tint at ΔE00 0.688: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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