Worn Silver
#c9c0bb
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
#c9c0bb
RGB
201, 192, 187
OKLCh
81.4% 0.012 51.3°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, 2.6, 3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 10% 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 33.1; on black, Lc -69.6. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 14.8 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7571 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
#c9c0bb
protanopia
#c1c1bb · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#c3c3bb · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#c5c59a · ΔE00 14.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChicago Fog at ΔE00 0.665: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chicago FogΔE00 0.665 · #cac2bd
- Down-HomeΔE00 0.95 · #cbc0ba
- Modest SilverΔE00 0.986 · #c7c0bc
- White GauzeΔE00 1.057 · #c9c2bd
- In the ShadowsΔE00 1.349 · #cbc4c0
- DimΔE00 1.484 · #c8c2be
- HushΔE00 1.496 · #c4bdba
- Dusky TaupeΔE00 1.502 · #c9bdb7
- VastΔE00 1.524 · #c9bdb8
- Silver CrossΔE00 1.608 · #cdc5c2
- Urban TaupeΔE00 1.627 · #c9bdb6
- Fond MemoryΔE00 1.646 · #c8bcb7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.