HueComb

Silken Pebble

#d0d0c9

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

#d0d0c9

RGB

208, 208, 201

OKLCh

85.6% 0.009 106.6°

CIELAB (D50)

83.3, -0.9, 3.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 44 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 5% 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 25.3; on black, Lc -77.8. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.55:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777771 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

#d0d0c9

protanopia

#d0d0c9 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#d0d0c9 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#d0d0c9 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkipping Rocks at ΔE00 0.531: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Skipping RocksΔE00 0.531 · #d1d0c9
  • Mexican SilverΔE00 0.655 · #cecec8
  • SilverpointeΔE00 0.67 · #d1d2cb
  • LatticeΔE00 0.676 · #cecec6
  • Guild GreyΔE00 0.814 · #d2d1cb
  • So Chic!ΔE00 0.945 · #cecdc5
  • Sweater WeatherΔE00 0.968 · #ccccc5
  • MoorstoneΔE00 1.038 · #cfd1ca
  • Front PorchΔE00 1.055 · #cdccc5
  • Polar FoxΔE00 1.067 · #d2d0c9
  • Gazebo GreyΔE00 1.147 · #d1d0cb
  • KefirΔE00 1.185 · #d5d5ce

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