Salt-N-Pepa
#dcd9db
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
#dcd9db
RGB
220, 217, 219
OKLCh
88.8% 0.004 337.4°
CIELAB (D50)
87.0, 1.3, -0.6
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 5% 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 19.4; on black, Lc -84.0. 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 5.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797678 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
#dcd9db
protanopia
#d9d9db · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#dadadb · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#dadad2 · ΔE00 5.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUrban Snowfall at ΔE00 0.23: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Urban SnowfallΔE00 0.23 · #dbd8da
- Creek PebbleΔE00 0.647 · #dbd7d9
- White-CollarΔE00 0.682 · #dedbde
- SubtleΔE00 0.718 · #dedadb
- Sunny PavementΔE00 0.721 · #d9d7d9
- Minified CinnamonΔE00 0.992 · #ded9db
- Cape HopeΔE00 1.072 · #d8d6d7
- OrochimaruΔE00 1.081 · #d9d8da
- Lavender LaceΔE00 1.101 · #dfdde0
- Sharp PebblesΔE00 1.153 · #dbd6d8
- Desired DawnΔE00 1.173 · #d8d7d9
- Diamond StudΔE00 1.252 · #dcdbdc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.