Smoked Oyster
#d9d2cd
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
#d9d2cd
RGB
217, 210, 205
OKLCh
86.8% 0.010 58.2°
CIELAB (D50)
84.7, 1.8, 3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 45 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 12% 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 23.2; on black, Lc -80.0. 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 11.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7671 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
#d9d2cd
protanopia
#d3d3cd · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#d4d4cd · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#d5d5b5 · ΔE00 11.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite City at ΔE00 0.794: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White CityΔE00 0.794 · #d6d0cc
- Heirloom PinkΔE00 0.821 · #dbd5d0
- White CastleΔE00 0.907 · #dbd5d1
- Baked BiscottiΔE00 0.996 · #dad3cc
- Sleeping InnΔE00 1.013 · #d8d3cf
- Light Pearl AshΔE00 1.016 · #dcd6d1
- Thick FogΔE00 1.018 · #dcd3ce
- Bread FlavourΔE00 1.09 · #dcd6d2
- Ancient PagesΔE00 1.109 · #ddd4ce
- Light Taupe WhiteΔE00 1.157 · #d5d0cb
- Steel MeΔE00 1.204 · #ddd5ce
- Atlantic SandΔE00 1.244 · #dcd5d2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.