HueComb

Moonbeam

#c2b8ae

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

#c2b8ae

RGB

194, 184, 174

OKLCh

78.8% 0.018 67.6°

CIELAB (D50)

75.4, 2.4, 6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 29 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 11% 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 -64.9. 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 5.5 and 5.8 and 15.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.95:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e756c 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

#c2b8ae

protanopia

#b9b9ae · ΔE00 5.5

deuteranopia

#bbbbae · ΔE00 5.8

tritanopia

#bdbd87 · ΔE00 15.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuxe Grey at ΔE00 0.689: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Luxe GreyΔE00 0.689 · #c3bab0
  • Versatile TaupeΔE00 0.748 · #c1b6ab
  • Light GlazeΔE00 0.95 · #c0b5aa
  • LegendaryΔE00 1.118 · #c6baaf
  • TideΔE00 1.157 · #beb4ab
  • Sequoia FogΔE00 1.187 · #c5bbaf
  • Graceful GreyΔE00 1.199 · #beb6ac
  • Kitty KittyΔE00 1.314 · #c7bdb3
  • Ash GreyΔE00 1.324 · #c1b5a9
  • Vampiric ShadowΔE00 1.338 · #bfb6aa
  • Anew GreyΔE00 1.407 · #beb6ab
  • DriftingΔE00 1.447 · #beb4a8

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