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#dcd7cd
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
#dcd7cd
RGB
220, 215, 205
OKLCh
88.0% 0.015 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
86.2, 0.5, 5.6
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 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 20.8; on black, Lc -82.6. 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 7.9 — 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
#7b766d 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
#dcd7cd
protanopia
#d8d8cd · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#d8d8cd · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#d9d9bc · ΔE00 7.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAthena at ΔE00 0.438: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AthenaΔE00 0.438 · #dcd7cc
- ShadyΔE00 0.505 · #dbd6cb
- Quiet InterludeΔE00 0.583 · #ddd7cc
- PolishedΔE00 0.587 · #ded8ce
- White PointerΔE00 0.593 · #dad6cc
- Silent SmokeΔE00 0.597 · #dbd7ce
- LimewashΔE00 0.663 · #dbd5cb
- Egret WhiteΔE00 0.725 · #dfd9cf
- Pebbled ShoreΔE00 0.727 · #dbd5ca
- Campfire AshΔE00 0.851 · #ddd9ce
- Drift of MistΔE00 0.947 · #dcd8d0
- Gilded LinenΔE00 1.003 · #dad5c9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.