Crystal Palace
#d3cfab
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
#d3cfab
RGB
211, 207, 171
OKLCh
84.8% 0.048 102.1°
CIELAB (D50)
82.8, -2.9, 18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% 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 26.4; on black, Lc -76.6. 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
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7857 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
#d3cfab
protanopia
#cfcfab · ΔE00 1.7
deuteranopia
#d0d0ab · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#d1d19a · ΔE00 4.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHybrid at ΔE00 0.685: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HybridΔE00 0.685 · #d0cda9
- Canary GrassΔE00 0.762 · #d0cca9
- Heart of PalmΔE00 1.449 · #d2cfa6
- Chinese SilkΔE00 1.47 · #d8d3b2
- Thistle GreenΔE00 1.627 · #cccaa8
- Crisp CeleryΔE00 1.674 · #cdcca6
- Frozen DewΔE00 1.737 · #d1caa4
- EavesΔE00 1.778 · #cecdad
- Morning MoorΔE00 1.921 · #dad6ae
- Sawgrass CottageΔE00 2.062 · #d3cda2
- Floating Lily PadΔE00 2.07 · #ccc7a1
- Dull SageΔE00 2.145 · #dbd4ab
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.