HueComb

Warm Oats

#d8cfba

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

#d8cfba

RGB

216, 207, 186

OKLCh

85.6% 0.030 87.6°

CIELAB (D50)

83.4, 0.6, 11.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 50 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 18% 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 25.3; on black, Lc -77.8. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.55:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7663 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

#d8cfba

protanopia

#d0d0ba · ΔE00 4.5

deuteranopia

#d2d2ba · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#d4d495 · ΔE00 11.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAtlantic Fig Snail at ΔE00 0.24: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Atlantic Fig SnailΔE00 0.24 · #d7ceb9
  • Wool SkeinΔE00 0.497 · #d9cfba
  • Vintage EphemeraΔE00 0.53 · #d8ceb9
  • PebblebrookΔE00 0.568 · #d8d0bc
  • Bell TowerΔE00 0.572 · #dad0bb
  • Velum SmokeΔE00 0.576 · #d6ceb9
  • Desert KhakiΔE00 0.622 · #d6cdb7
  • Grand PianoΔE00 0.804 · #d8d0bd
  • TurtledoveΔE00 0.809 · #d6cebb
  • Toasted AlmondΔE00 0.989 · #dacfba
  • ChinoΔE00 0.989 · #dbd2bb
  • Oyster BarΔE00 1.04 · #dbd0bb

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