Oat Milk
#dedacd
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
#dedacd
RGB
222, 218, 205
OKLCh
88.8% 0.018 92.7°
CIELAB (D50)
87.1, -0.3, 6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 89 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 19.3; on black, Lc -84.1. 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 6.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a776b 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
#dedacd
protanopia
#dadacd · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#dbdbcd · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#dcdcbf · ΔE00 6.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNavy Bean at ΔE00 0.456: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Navy BeanΔE00 0.456 · #e0dccf
- White WispΔE00 0.547 · #dedbce
- Ginger SugarΔE00 0.593 · #dddace
- Milk WhiteΔE00 0.647 · #dcd9cd
- Glass PebbleΔE00 0.726 · #dbd8cb
- Campfire AshΔE00 0.861 · #ddd9ce
- Sassafras TeaΔE00 0.893 · #dbd8ca
- Light GraniteΔE00 0.917 · #e2ddcf
- SaturniaΔE00 1.04 · #dddbce
- Hazy TrailΔE00 1.04 · #dcdace
- CocoonΔE00 1.047 · #dedbcc
- Texan AngelΔE00 1.051 · #e2ddd1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.