Cold Turkey
#cab5b2
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
#cab5b2
RGB
202, 181, 178
OKLCh
79.0% 0.025 27.4°
CIELAB (D50)
75.4, 7.4, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 10.4 and 11.5 and 28.7 — 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
#867270 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
#cab5b2
protanopia
#b8b8b2 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#bbbbb1 · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#c0c044 · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPuka Shell at ΔE00 0.381: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Puka ShellΔE00 0.381 · #cbb5b2
- Subdued HueΔE00 1.187 · #c6b1ad
- Rosy LinenΔE00 1.268 · #c6b4b2
- Subdue RedΔE00 1.284 · #ccb8b3
- Versailles RoseΔE00 1.454 · #c4b0ad
- Smoked LavenderΔE00 1.607 · #ceb5b3
- Milky SkiesΔE00 1.715 · #c3b1af
- Hushed VioletΔE00 1.865 · #cdbbb9
- Insightful RoseΔE00 1.991 · #c9b0ab
- Artistic TaupeΔE00 2.074 · #c3b1ac
- Wispy MauveΔE00 2.086 · #c6aeaa
- Grey RoseΔE00 2.123 · #c6b6b2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.