HueComb

Alaska

#dadad1

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

#dadad1

RGB

218, 218, 209

OKLCh

88.6% 0.012 106.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.9, -1.2, 4.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 57 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 6% 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 19.7; on black, Lc -83.8. 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.
  • 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

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#77776f 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

#dadad1

protanopia

#dadad1 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#dadad1 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#dadad1 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurkish Tower at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Turkish TowerΔE00 0.489 · #d9d9d1
  • Subtle ShadowΔE00 0.624 · #d8d8d0
  • Silver CreekΔE00 0.638 · #d9dad2
  • Seagull GreyΔE00 0.912 · #d9d9d2
  • Lady NicoleΔE00 0.926 · #d6d6cd
  • Mr. KittyΔE00 0.93 · #dbdbd4
  • FeatherΔE00 0.966 · #dad9ce
  • Pacific FogΔE00 1.019 · #dcdcd5
  • AnonymousΔE00 1.07 · #dadcd3
  • Silken WebΔE00 1.126 · #dadcd4
  • Frosty WhiteΔE00 1.146 · #ddddd6
  • Silver AshΔE00 1.278 · #dddbd0

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