Ghost Whisperer
#cbd1d0
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
#cbd1d0
RGB
203, 209, 208
OKLCh
85.6% 0.007 185.2°
CIELAB (D50)
83.3, -2.3, -0.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 35 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.2; on black, Lc -77.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727877 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
#cbd1d0
protanopia
#d0d0d0 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#cfcfd0 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#cecee1 · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Blush at ΔE00 0.506: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue BlushΔE00 0.506 · #cbd1cf
- Geyser SteamΔE00 0.511 · #cbd0cf
- Foggy MornΔE00 0.567 · #cad0ce
- SoloΔE00 0.741 · #cbd2d0
- MistyΔE00 0.809 · #cdd2d2
- Tsunami SkyΔE00 0.905 · #cfd4d3
- Sparkling SilverΔE00 1.09 · #cbd0cd
- Light French GreyΔE00 1.128 · #c9cfcc
- AerodynamicΔE00 1.142 · #cacecd
- Bluish Lilac PurpleΔE00 1.187 · #d0d5d3
- Harp StringsΔE00 1.21 · #cbd0d1
- ZumthorΔE00 1.305 · #cdd5d5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.