HueComb

Wishing Well

#d0d1c1

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

#d0d1c1

RGB

208, 209, 193

OKLCh

85.5% 0.022 109.8°

CIELAB (D50)

83.4, -2.4, 7.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 12% 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 25.2; on black, Lc -77.9. 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.
  • 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

13.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777869 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

#d0d1c1

protanopia

#d1d1c1 · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#d1d1c1 · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#d1d1c4 · ΔE00 1.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerena at ΔE00 0.445: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • SerenaΔE00 0.445 · #cfd0c1
  • Pallid WychΔE00 0.723 · #cdcebe
  • White SageΔE00 0.898 · #d2d4c3
  • 400XT FilmΔE00 0.901 · #d2d2c0
  • Daikon WhiteΔE00 0.911 · #d4d4c4
  • Liveable GreenΔE00 0.913 · #cecebd
  • Glass TileΔE00 1.024 · #cdd0c0
  • Sliced CucumberΔE00 1.13 · #cccfbf
  • SpookyΔE00 1.134 · #d1d2bf
  • Misty MemoryΔE00 1.168 · #cbcdbe
  • Particular MintΔE00 1.274 · #d0d2c5
  • BrainstormΔE00 1.294 · #d1d3c0

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