HueComb

Soy Milk

#d5d2c7

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

#d5d2c7

RGB

213, 210, 199

OKLCh

86.3% 0.015 94.2°

CIELAB (D50)

84.2, -0.4, 5.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 56 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 24.0; on black, Lc -79.2. 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

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.87:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.87:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79776d 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

#d5d2c7

protanopia

#d2d2c7 · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#d3d3c7 · ΔE00 1.7

tritanopia

#d3d3bd · ΔE00 4.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPower Lunch at ΔE00 0.484: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Power LunchΔE00 0.484 · #d4d1c7
  • GreybeardΔE00 0.675 · #d4d0c5
  • Silver BirchΔE00 0.716 · #d2cfc4
  • Barest HushΔE00 0.747 · #d5d3c7
  • Soft SecretΔE00 0.755 · #d6d4ca
  • Grey WhiteΔE00 0.912 · #d7d5cb
  • EonΔE00 1.073 · #d4d3c9
  • Dried Pipe ClayΔE00 1.096 · #d8d6cc
  • MuslinΔE00 1.112 · #d3d1c4
  • Winter WalkΔE00 1.148 · #d8d5cc
  • ExhaleΔE00 1.161 · #d2cec4
  • Light GhostingΔE00 1.164 · #d7d3ca

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