HueComb

Mushroom Risotto

#dbd0ca

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

#dbd0ca

RGB

219, 208, 202

OKLCh

86.5% 0.015 50.8°

CIELAB (D50)

84.3, 3.2, 4.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 36 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 18% 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 23.9; on black, Lc -79.3. 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 5.8 and 6.3 and 17.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.89:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f756f 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

#dbd0ca

protanopia

#d1d1ca · ΔE00 5.8

deuteranopia

#d3d3ca · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#d6d6a1 · ΔE00 17.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Stone at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light StoneΔE00 0.551 · #dcd1cc
  • InstantΔE00 0.692 · #d9cec7
  • Pearls & LaceΔE00 0.746 · #dcd0cb
  • ThoughtΔE00 0.854 · #d8cdc8
  • Seed CathedralΔE00 0.956 · #d7ccc6
  • SubpoenaΔE00 1.015 · #d8ccc6
  • Thick FogΔE00 1.124 · #dcd3ce
  • Vision of LightΔE00 1.185 · #dfd3cb
  • March IceΔE00 1.222 · #d8cdc5
  • Mocha IceΔE00 1.241 · #dfd2ca
  • Ancient PagesΔE00 1.259 · #ddd4ce
  • Rose PearlΔE00 1.322 · #dfd4cc

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