Argento
#cecac3
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
#cecac3
RGB
206, 202, 195
OKLCh
84.0% 0.011 81.8°
CIELAB (D50)
81.5, 0.5, 4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 43 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 28.2; on black, Lc -74.7. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7670 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
#cecac3
protanopia
#cacac3 · ΔE00 2.2
deuteranopia
#cbcbc3 · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#ccccb6 · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGround Fog at ΔE00 0.245: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ground FogΔE00 0.245 · #cfcbc4
- Cool SlateΔE00 0.489 · #d0ccc5
- Winter HazeΔE00 0.648 · #cec9c1
- Gravel DriveΔE00 0.662 · #cecbc5
- Chic GreyΔE00 0.688 · #cfccc5
- Misty HazeΔE00 0.814 · #cec9c3
- Vanilla QuakeΔE00 0.82 · #cbc8c2
- Swirling SmokeΔE00 0.926 · #cecac1
- Grey PebbleΔE00 0.947 · #cfcac1
- VesselΔE00 1.062 · #cdc8bf
- Cotton GreyΔE00 1.071 · #d1ccc3
- Early EveningΔE00 1.131 · #cac7bf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.