Berber
#d8cfb6
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
#d8cfb6
RGB
216, 207, 182
OKLCh
85.5% 0.035 90.5°
CIELAB (D50)
83.4, 0.2, 13.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 20% 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 25.4; on black, Lc -77.7. 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 11.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f765f 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
#d8cfb6
protanopia
#d0d0b6 · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#d2d2b6 · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#d4d490 · ΔE00 11.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLake Bluff Putty at ΔE00 0.507: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lake Bluff PuttyΔE00 0.507 · #d9cfb5
- Ecru WealthΔE00 0.72 · #d5cdb4
- Lion of HadrianΔE00 0.867 · #dbd1b9
- Bleached PebbleΔE00 0.872 · #d9d1ba
- QuillΔE00 0.898 · #dcd2b8
- ChinoΔE00 1.03 · #dbd2bb
- Aths SpecialΔE00 1.037 · #d5cbb2
- Only OatmealΔE00 1.102 · #d4cdb5
- Desert KhakiΔE00 1.14 · #d6cdb7
- Gunny SackΔE00 1.213 · #dcd3bc
- Velum SmokeΔE00 1.384 · #d6ceb9
- Pearly PuttyΔE00 1.413 · #dbd3bd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.