HueComb

Watermelon Milk

#dfcfca

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

#dfcfca

RGB

223, 207, 202

OKLCh

86.6% 0.019 38.1°

CIELAB (D50)

84.3, 5.1, 4.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 26% 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 23.8; on black, Lc -79.4. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.2 and 8.9 and 22.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.92:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.92:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#82746f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#dfcfca

protanopia

#d1d1ca · ΔE00 8.2

deuteranopia

#d4d4ca · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#d7d788 · ΔE00 22.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLip Gloss at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.