HueComb

Kitty Kitty

#c7bdb3

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

#c7bdb3

RGB

199, 189, 179

OKLCh

80.4% 0.018 67.6°

CIELAB (D50)

77.2, 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 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 34.8; on black, Lc -67.8. 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 5.4 and 5.8 and 15.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.85:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.36:1. 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

#c7bdb3

protanopia

#bebeb3 · ΔE00 5.4

deuteranopia

#c0c0b3 · ΔE00 5.8

tritanopia

#c2c28c · 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 isTwilight Beige at ΔE00 0.679: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Twilight BeigeΔE00 0.679 · #c8bfb5
  • Crumbling StatueΔE00 0.78 · #cabfb4
  • Luxe GreyΔE00 0.976 · #c3bab0
  • Penthouse ViewΔE00 1.033 · #cabfb3
  • Sequoia FogΔE00 1.075 · #c5bbaf
  • LegendaryΔE00 1.162 · #c6baaf
  • RoadrunnerΔE00 1.183 · #c8c0b7
  • HearthstoneΔE00 1.185 · #c7beb2
  • Finishing TouchΔE00 1.24 · #cbbfb3
  • Grey MornΔE00 1.258 · #cabeb5
  • MoonbeamΔE00 1.314 · #c2b8ae
  • Basket of BobbinsΔE00 1.344 · #c8c0b8

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