HueComb

Mothy

#cebbb3

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

#cebbb3

RGB

206, 187, 179

OKLCh

80.6% 0.025 44.3°

CIELAB (D50)

77.3, 6.0, 6.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 21% 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 34.7; on black, Lc -67.9. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.8 and 10.7 and 25.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.84:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85736c 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

#cebbb3

protanopia

#bdbdb3 · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#c1c1b3 · ΔE00 10.7

tritanopia

#c5c554 · ΔE00 25.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOsprey Nest at ΔE00 0.782: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Osprey NestΔE00 0.782 · #ccbab1
  • Smokey PinkΔE00 1.139 · #cebdb4
  • Summer BloomΔE00 1.19 · #d1beb4
  • StatuedΔE00 1.355 · #d0bcb1
  • Desert MorningΔE00 1.388 · #d0bbb0
  • Forever FairytaleΔE00 1.529 · #d2bbb2
  • Smooth PebblesΔE00 1.534 · #cabab1
  • Woven CashmereΔE00 1.631 · #cabbb4
  • Musk DuskΔE00 1.633 · #cfbfb9
  • Subdue RedΔE00 1.7 · #ccb8b3
  • Wild RiceΔE00 1.911 · #d5bfb4
  • AvorioΔE00 1.913 · #ccbdb4

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