HueComb

Feather

#dad9ce

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

#dad9ce

RGB

218, 217, 206

OKLCh

88.3% 0.015 102.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.5, -1.1, 5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 56 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 8% 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 20.2; on black, Lc -83.2. 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.
  • 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

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#78776d 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

#dad9ce

protanopia

#d9d9ce · ΔE00 0.5

deuteranopia

#d9d9ce · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#d9d9cb · ΔE00 1.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCelery White at ΔE00 0.613: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Celery WhiteΔE00 0.613 · #dbd9cd
  • Hazy TrailΔE00 0.665 · #dcdace
  • Silver AshΔE00 0.726 · #dddbd0
  • Dried Pipe ClayΔE00 0.954 · #d8d6cc
  • AlaskaΔE00 0.966 · #dadad1
  • Light LivingstoneΔE00 0.968 · #d8d7ca
  • Nonchalant WhiteΔE00 0.986 · #deddd1
  • SaturniaΔE00 1.02 · #dddbce
  • Milk WhiteΔE00 1.053 · #dcd9cd
  • Ginger SugarΔE00 1.095 · #dddace
  • Grey WhiteΔE00 1.121 · #d7d5cb
  • Lady NicoleΔE00 1.178 · #d6d6cd

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