Sterling
#d1d4d1
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
#d1d4d1
RGB
209, 212, 209
OKLCh
86.7% 0.005 145.5°
CIELAB (D50)
84.6, -1.5, 1.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 47 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.2; on black, Lc -80.0. 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 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757775 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
#d1d4d1
protanopia
#d4d4d1 · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#d3d3d1 · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#d3d3da · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEvaporation at ΔE00 0.697: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- EvaporationΔE00 0.697 · #d1d5d3
- TornadoΔE00 0.698 · #d1d3cf
- ReflectionΔE00 0.811 · #d3d5d3
- Cool VapourΔE00 0.996 · #d5d7d3
- Bluish Lilac PurpleΔE00 1.068 · #d0d5d3
- Calm Cool and CollectedΔE00 1.127 · #d0d4cf
- Foggy DewΔE00 1.132 · #d1d5d0
- Double ClickΔE00 1.247 · #d0d2d1
- TundraΔE00 1.284 · #d6d9d7
- Sheer LightΔE00 1.285 · #cdd2ce
- Planetary SilverΔE00 1.306 · #cccfcb
- Polar StarΔE00 1.332 · #d0d1cf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.