HueComb

Kefir

#d5d5ce

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

#d5d5ce

RGB

213, 213, 206

OKLCh

87.1% 0.009 106.6°

CIELAB (D50)

85.1, -0.9, 3.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 49 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 5% 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 22.5; on black, Lc -80.8. 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

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777771 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

#d5d5ce

protanopia

#d5d5ce · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#d5d5ce · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#d5d5ce · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClose Knit at ΔE00 0.548: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Close KnitΔE00 0.548 · #d5d6cf
  • Slow PerchΔE00 0.767 · #d5d4ce
  • Subtle ShadowΔE00 0.816 · #d8d8d0
  • Lady NicoleΔE00 0.915 · #d6d6cd
  • SilverpointeΔE00 0.922 · #d1d2cb
  • Seagull GreyΔE00 0.93 · #d9d9d2
  • Modern MonumentΔE00 0.971 · #d6d6d1
  • Turkish TowerΔE00 1.016 · #d9d9d1
  • Silver TraditionΔE00 1.054 · #d9d9d3
  • FogΔE00 1.107 · #d6d7d2
  • Vaporous GreyΔE00 1.127 · #d8d6ce
  • Seashell GreyΔE00 1.148 · #d5d4cf

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