HueComb

Tapioca

#dac9b9

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

#dac9b9

RGB

218, 201, 185

OKLCh

84.6% 0.029 65.7°

CIELAB (D50)

82.1, 4.2, 10.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 26% 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 27.5; on black, Lc -75.5. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.8 and 9.3 and 20.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837466 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

#dac9b9

protanopia

#cbcbb9 · ΔE00 8.8

deuteranopia

#ceceb9 · ΔE00 9.3

tritanopia

#d2d266 · ΔE00 20.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIvory Ridge at ΔE00 0.73: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ivory RidgeΔE00 0.73 · #d9c9b8
  • Honey Lime ChickenΔE00 0.824 · #ddccbb
  • Pink TintΔE00 0.892 · #d9c8ba
  • Simplify BeigeΔE00 1.132 · #d6c7b9
  • Suede BeigeΔE00 1.182 · #d9c7b9
  • SandshellΔE00 1.428 · #d6c8b8
  • ChintzΔE00 1.446 · #d5c7b9
  • Flax BeigeΔE00 1.482 · #d4c3b3
  • Whisper PinkΔE00 1.587 · #d4c5b4
  • Touch of SandΔE00 1.607 · #d5c7ba
  • Sand DollarΔE00 1.676 · #dccdbb
  • Pastel SandΔE00 1.698 · #d5c6b4

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