HueComb

Crumbling Statue

#cabfb4

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

#cabfb4

RGB

202, 191, 180

OKLCh

81.1% 0.020 67.5°

CIELAB (D50)

78.0, 2.6, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 32 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 13% 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 33.6; on black, Lc -69.0. 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 5.9 and 6.3 and 16.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f756b 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

#cabfb4

protanopia

#c0c0b4 · ΔE00 5.9

deuteranopia

#c2c2b4 · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#c5c588 · ΔE00 16.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPenthouse View at ΔE00 0.455: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Penthouse ViewΔE00 0.455 · #cabfb3
  • Finishing TouchΔE00 0.542 · #cbbfb3
  • Kitty KittyΔE00 0.78 · #c7bdb3
  • LoopholeΔE00 0.927 · #cbc0b3
  • Twilight BeigeΔE00 0.949 · #c8bfb5
  • WhippetΔE00 1.087 · #cec1b5
  • AshenΔE00 1.165 · #c9bfb2
  • Grey MornΔE00 1.192 · #cabeb5
  • Raw Cashew NutΔE00 1.214 · #c8beb1
  • HearthstoneΔE00 1.278 · #c7beb2
  • LegendaryΔE00 1.336 · #c6baaf
  • Sequoia FogΔE00 1.354 · #c5bbaf

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