Oatmeal
#c9c1b1
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
#c9c1b1
RGB
201, 193, 177
OKLCh
81.3% 0.024 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
78.4, 0.9, 9.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 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 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7667 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
#c9c1b1
protanopia
#c2c2b1 · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#c3c3b1 · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#c5c592 · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNeutra at ΔE00 0.514: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- NeutraΔE00 0.514 · #cac1b1
- Villa GreyΔE00 0.761 · #ccc4b4
- Malibu BeigeΔE00 0.773 · #c9c0b1
- Sculptor ClayΔE00 0.95 · #ccc3b4
- Bay SandsΔE00 0.975 · #c5beae
- Slumber SlothΔE00 1.013 · #cdc5b5
- Beach WoodsΔE00 1.028 · #cac0b0
- Scenic PathΔE00 1.177 · #cec5b4
- Washed KhakiΔE00 1.202 · #cac2af
- Phelps PuttyΔE00 1.204 · #c4bdad
- Whisper RidgeΔE00 1.211 · #c9c3b5
- Still MomentΔE00 1.254 · #cbc4b2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.