Greybeard
#d4d0c5
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
#d4d0c5
RGB
212, 208, 197
OKLCh
85.8% 0.016 90.3°
CIELAB (D50)
83.6, -0.0, 6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 48 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 9% 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 25.0; on black, Lc -78.1. 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 6.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.54:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a776d 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
#d4d0c5
protanopia
#d0d0c5 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#d1d1c5 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#d2d2b7 · ΔE00 6.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilver Birch at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Silver BirchΔE00 0.602 · #d2cfc4
- ExhaleΔE00 0.634 · #d2cec4
- Power LunchΔE00 0.64 · #d4d1c7
- Soy MilkΔE00 0.675 · #d5d2c7
- WestarΔE00 0.779 · #d4cfc5
- Gossamer VeilΔE00 0.864 · #d3cec4
- MineralΔE00 1.073 · #d7d1c5
- Rotunda WhiteΔE00 1.098 · #d7d1c6
- Toasty GreyΔE00 1.106 · #d1ccc0
- Light GhostingΔE00 1.158 · #d7d3ca
- Crocodile ToothΔE00 1.173 · #d1ccc2
- BowstringΔE00 1.181 · #d6d1c8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.