HueComb

Tropical Fog

#cbcab6

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

#cbcab6

RGB

203, 202, 182

OKLCh

83.4% 0.027 104.6°

CIELAB (D50)

81.0, -2.2, 10.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 15% 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 29.1; on black, Lc -73.8. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797865 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

#cbcab6

protanopia

#cacab6 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#cacab6 · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#cacab3 · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOcean Foam at ΔE00 0.664: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ocean FoamΔE00 0.664 · #cac8b4
  • Nature SpiritsΔE00 0.738 · #c8c8b4
  • Wabi-SabiΔE00 0.788 · #c8c8b5
  • Mix or MatchΔE00 0.972 · #ccccba
  • French Grey LinenΔE00 1.016 · #cac8b6
  • Pale TendrilΔE00 1.071 · #cecdbb
  • Half MoonΔE00 1.156 · #cccdb9
  • Cargo RiverΔE00 1.253 · #cfcdbb
  • Kittiwake GullΔE00 1.273 · #ccccbb
  • Moss IslandΔE00 1.296 · #c8c6b4
  • PalatineΔE00 1.418 · #c9c7b6
  • Spring GreyΔE00 1.488 · #c5c6b3

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