Silver-Tongued
#cdc7c7
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
#cdc7c7
RGB
205, 199, 199
OKLCh
83.5% 0.007 17.3°
CIELAB (D50)
80.7, 2.2, 0.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 23 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 29.4; on black, Lc -73.5. 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 11.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7575 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
#cdc7c7
protanopia
#c8c8c7 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#c9c9c7 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#cacab3 · ΔE00 11.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlto at ΔE00 0.686: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AltoΔE00 0.686 · #cdc6c5
- Dangerous RobotΔE00 0.702 · #cbc5c6
- Mercury GlassΔE00 0.805 · #cec9ca
- Warm AshesΔE00 1.131 · #cfc9c7
- Serious GreyΔE00 1.284 · #cec9c7
- LunetteΔE00 1.329 · #d0c8c6
- Off ShoreΔE00 1.388 · #d1cccb
- Watermill WoodΔE00 1.483 · #d3cccd
- Dusk in the ValleyΔE00 1.522 · #d2cac8
- Sensitive TintΔE00 1.606 · #cec9cc
- DestinyΔE00 1.612 · #cfc9c6
- Amethyst IceΔE00 1.616 · #d0c9c6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.