HueComb

Coconut Macaroon

#dacac0

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

#dacac0

RGB

218, 202, 192

OKLCh

84.9% 0.023 54.3°

CIELAB (D50)

82.5, 4.5, 7.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 24% 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 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 8.4 and 9.0 and 21.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#82746b 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

#dacac0

protanopia

#ccccc0 · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#cfcfc0 · ΔE00 9.0

tritanopia

#d2d27a · ΔE00 21.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCurly Maple at ΔE00 0.487: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Curly MapleΔE00 0.487 · #d8c8be
  • Pastel ParchmentΔE00 0.695 · #dbccc3
  • Perk UpΔE00 0.929 · #d6c7be
  • Stonewashed BrownΔE00 1.019 · #dcccc0
  • Desert RockΔE00 1.141 · #d5c6bd
  • Bermuda SandΔE00 1.154 · #dacbbf
  • Unfussy BeigeΔE00 1.203 · #d6c8c0
  • Cocoa ParfaitΔE00 1.305 · #dfcec2
  • Goodbye KissΔE00 1.349 · #d9cac3
  • BriocheΔE00 1.48 · #dfcfc3
  • ChristobelΔE00 1.488 · #d4c5ba
  • MorganiteΔE00 1.541 · #dfcec6

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