HueComb

Smooth Pebbles

#cabab1

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

#cabab1

RGB

202, 186, 177

OKLCh

80.0% 0.022 51.5°

CIELAB (D50)

76.7, 4.7, 6.7

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 17% 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 35.7; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 8.5 and 9.1 and 21.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.88:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83746c 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

#cabab1

protanopia

#bcbcb1 · ΔE00 8.5

deuteranopia

#bfbfb1 · ΔE00 9.1

tritanopia

#c2c268 · ΔE00 21.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAvorio at ΔE00 0.849: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • AvorioΔE00 0.849 · #ccbdb4
  • Osprey NestΔE00 0.861 · #ccbab1
  • Smokey PinkΔE00 0.935 · #cebdb4
  • Woven CashmereΔE00 0.963 · #cabbb4
  • Seagull BeachΔE00 1.115 · #c9bbb4
  • Blanched DriftwoodΔE00 1.287 · #ccbeb6
  • FrothΔE00 1.308 · #c6b8ae
  • Clean SweepΔE00 1.472 · #ccbcb0
  • MothyΔE00 1.534 · #cebbb3
  • Race TrackΔE00 1.606 · #cbbeb5
  • Summer BloomΔE00 1.687 · #d1beb4
  • Boardwalk SashayΔE00 1.694 · #c7b6aa

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