Misty Haze
#cec9c3
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
#cec9c3
RGB
206, 201, 195
OKLCh
83.8% 0.010 72.6°
CIELAB (D50)
81.2, 1.0, 3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 40 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 28.6; on black, Lc -74.3. 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 8.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7671 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
#cec9c3
protanopia
#cacac3 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#cacac3 · ΔE00 2.9
tritanopia
#cbcbb2 · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArgento at ΔE00 0.814: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ArgentoΔE00 0.814 · #cecac3
- Ground FogΔE00 0.899 · #cfcbc4
- Winter HazeΔE00 0.955 · #cec9c1
- Pearl AshΔE00 1.026 · #d0c9c3
- Cool SlateΔE00 1.035 · #d0ccc5
- Vanilla QuakeΔE00 1.116 · #cbc8c2
- Gravel DriveΔE00 1.125 · #cecbc5
- Burnished ClayΔE00 1.216 · #d2ccc4
- Slight MushroomΔE00 1.231 · #cfc9c5
- Grey ClothΔE00 1.264 · #ccc9c5
- RavineΔE00 1.292 · #d3cec7
- Limed WhiteΔE00 1.377 · #cfc9c0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.