Athena
#dcd7cc
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
#dcd7cc
RGB
220, 215, 204
OKLCh
88.0% 0.016 86.4°
CIELAB (D50)
86.2, 0.4, 6.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 71 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 12% 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 20.9; on black, Lc -82.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b766c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dcd7cc
protanopia
#d8d8cc · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#d8d8cc · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#d9d9bb · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShady at ΔE00 0.232: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ShadyΔE00 0.232 · #dbd6cb
- SkyvoryΔE00 0.438 · #dcd7cd
- Quiet InterludeΔE00 0.519 · #ddd7cc
- Gilded LinenΔE00 0.647 · #dad5c9
- White PointerΔE00 0.648 · #dad6cc
- Campfire AshΔE00 0.663 · #ddd9ce
- Pebbled ShoreΔE00 0.663 · #dbd5ca
- PolishedΔE00 0.819 · #ded8ce
- LimewashΔE00 0.86 · #dbd5cb
- Silent SmokeΔE00 0.907 · #dbd7ce
- Egret WhiteΔE00 0.927 · #dfd9cf
- Wheat Flour WhiteΔE00 1.013 · #ddd6ca
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.