Dim
#c8c2be
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
#c8c2be
RGB
200, 194, 190
OKLCh
81.8% 0.009 56.3°
CIELAB (D50)
78.8, 1.6, 2.8
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 7% 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 32.3; on black, Lc -70.4. 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 10.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.76:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7672 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
#c8c2be
protanopia
#c3c3be · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#c4c4be · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#c5c5aa · ΔE00 10.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Gauze at ΔE00 0.621: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White GauzeΔE00 0.621 · #c9c2bd
- Modest SilverΔE00 0.677 · #c7c0bc
- In the ShadowsΔE00 0.748 · #cbc4c0
- Orchid ShadowΔE00 0.928 · #cbc5c2
- Chicago FogΔE00 1.002 · #cac2bd
- White FlagΔE00 1.033 · #c8c2c0
- Taupe WhiteΔE00 1.046 · #c7c1bb
- Olive BreadΔE00 1.24 · #c3bebb
- Overdue GreyΔE00 1.262 · #c7c3be
- ApolloΔE00 1.357 · #c8c4c2
- Natural GreyΔE00 1.41 · #c4c0bb
- HushΔE00 1.449 · #c4bdba
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.