Zen Garden
#d1dac0
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d1dac0
RGB
209, 218, 192
OKLCh
87.5% 0.036 122.7°
CIELAB (D50)
85.8, -6.6, 11.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 17% 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 21.4; on black, Lc -81.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 14.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727a62 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
#d1dac0
protanopia
#d9d9c0 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#d7d7c0 · ΔE00 4.0
tritanopia
#d6d6dc · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBalance at ΔE00 0.571: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BalanceΔE00 0.571 · #d1dbc2
- Celery SatinΔE00 0.577 · #d0d8be
- Dream SeascapeΔE00 0.956 · #d5dec3
- Canary GreenΔE00 1.069 · #ccd6bc
- Turtle ChalkΔE00 1.192 · #ced8c1
- Issey-SanΔE00 1.322 · #cfdac3
- Pale Moss GreenΔE00 1.334 · #d0dbc4
- HawthorneΔE00 1.473 · #ced7c1
- BreakawayΔE00 1.608 · #cedac3
- Turning LeafΔE00 1.628 · #ced9c3
- Spring JoyΔE00 1.695 · #cdd9bb
- Green FrostΔE00 1.703 · #d0d6bf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.