HueComb

Dangerous Robot

#cbc5c6

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

#cbc5c6

RGB

203, 197, 198

OKLCh

82.9% 0.007 5.7°

CIELAB (D50)

80.0, 2.3, 0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 7% 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 30.4; on black, Lc -72.3. 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 11.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.70:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7576 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

#cbc5c6

protanopia

#c6c6c6 · ΔE00 3.2

deuteranopia

#c7c7c6 · ΔE00 3.4

tritanopia

#c8c8b2 · ΔE00 11.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilver-Tongued at ΔE00 0.702: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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