Shōji
#ded5c7
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
#ded5c7
RGB
222, 213, 199
OKLCh
87.6% 0.021 79.1°
CIELAB (D50)
85.7, 1.4, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 74 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 19% 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 21.6; on black, Lc -81.7. 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 12.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7669 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
#ded5c7
protanopia
#d6d6c7 · ΔE00 4.7
deuteranopia
#d8d8c7 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#dad9a5 · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Froth at ΔE00 0.427: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate FrothΔE00 0.427 · #ded5c8
- Coconut IceΔE00 0.477 · #ddd4c7
- Urban BirdΔE00 0.489 · #ddd4c5
- Kestrel WhiteΔE00 0.568 · #e0d6c8
- Powder CakeΔE00 0.697 · #dfd7ca
- WindrushΔE00 0.738 · #dbd3c6
- Sonoran SandsΔE00 0.749 · #ddd5c6
- Casual EleganceΔE00 0.756 · #dfd5c8
- EarthlingΔE00 0.764 · #ded6c7
- Moon DropΔE00 0.846 · #ddd5c9
- Natural TanΔE00 0.86 · #dcd2c3
- Always NeutralΔE00 0.96 · #dfd7cb
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.