HueComb

Couch Potato

#c2b4a7

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

#c2b4a7

RGB

194, 180, 167

OKLCh

77.8% 0.024 65.4°

CIELAB (D50)

74.2, 3.5, 8.5

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 only 14% 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 39.3; on black, Lc -63.0. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.5 and 8.0 and 18.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.02:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817568 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

#c2b4a7

protanopia

#b6b6a7 · ΔE00 7.5

deuteranopia

#b8b8a7 · ΔE00 8.0

tritanopia

#bbbb67 · ΔE00 18.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAsh Grey at ΔE00 0.921: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ash GreyΔE00 0.921 · #c1b5a9
  • SmokestackΔE00 1.163 · #beb2a5
  • Cool BeigeΔE00 1.35 · #c6b5a7
  • MooloolabaΔE00 1.372 · #c7b8a9
  • Light GlazeΔE00 1.424 · #c0b5aa
  • Balanced BeigeΔE00 1.453 · #c0b2a2
  • Versatile TaupeΔE00 1.475 · #c1b6ab
  • BaristaΔE00 1.504 · #bcafa2
  • Blind DateΔE00 1.648 · #bcaea1
  • EsotericΔE00 1.651 · #c4b5a4
  • Steveareno BeigeΔE00 1.676 · #c5b5a4
  • Coral ClayΔE00 1.682 · #c2b1a1

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