Timid White
#d9d6cf
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
#d9d6cf
RGB
217, 214, 207
OKLCh
87.6% 0.010 87.5°
CIELAB (D50)
85.7, 0.1, 3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 61 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 7% 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 21.5; on black, Lc -81.8. 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 5.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797770 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
#d9d6cf
protanopia
#d6d6cf · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#d7d7cf · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#d7d7c5 · ΔE00 5.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCatacomb Walls at ΔE00 0.598: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Catacomb WallsΔE00 0.598 · #dbd7d0
- Vaporous GreyΔE00 0.769 · #d8d6ce
- Drift of MistΔE00 0.79 · #dcd8d0
- Winter WalkΔE00 0.948 · #d8d5cc
- Light Vanilla QuakeΔE00 0.971 · #d8d5d0
- Silent SmokeΔE00 0.975 · #dbd7ce
- Fog BeaconΔE00 0.984 · #d8d6d1
- Light GhostingΔE00 1.17 · #d7d3ca
- Slow PerchΔE00 1.211 · #d5d4ce
- Eastern WolfΔE00 1.232 · #dbd7d2
- GalleryΔE00 1.296 · #dcd7d1
- White PointerΔE00 1.337 · #dad6cc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.