HueComb

Fennec Fox

#dad7c8

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

#dad7c8

RGB

218, 215, 200

OKLCh

87.7% 0.021 97.6°

CIELAB (D50)

85.9, -0.9, 7.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 53 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 11% 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 21.3; on black, Lc -82.1. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7769 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

#dad7c8

protanopia

#d7d7c8 · ΔE00 1.5

deuteranopia

#d8d8c8 · ΔE00 1.6

tritanopia

#d8d8be · ΔE00 4.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoseidon’s Beard at ΔE00 0.233: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Poseidon’s BeardΔE00 0.233 · #d9d6c7
  • Sassafras TeaΔE00 0.471 · #dbd8ca
  • Veil of DuskΔE00 0.541 · #dad8c9
  • Silver MoonΔE00 0.593 · #d9d7c9
  • Plume GrassΔE00 0.727 · #d9d5c5
  • Light Cargo RiverΔE00 0.792 · #dbd9c9
  • Glass PebbleΔE00 0.848 · #dbd8cb
  • LimestoneΔE00 0.877 · #dcd8c7
  • CocoonΔE00 0.921 · #dedbcc
  • WhetstoneΔE00 1.042 · #d8d6c5
  • Light Pale TendrilΔE00 1.175 · #dbdacb
  • Light LivingstoneΔE00 1.197 · #d8d7ca

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