HueComb

Wheat Sheaf

#dfd4c4

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

#dfd4c4

RGB

223, 212, 196

OKLCh

87.4% 0.025 77.4°

CIELAB (D50)

85.5, 1.9, 9.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 58 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 22% 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 22.0; on black, Lc -81.3. 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 5.7 and 6.0 and 14.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7567 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

#dfd4c4

protanopia

#d5d5c4 · ΔE00 5.7

deuteranopia

#d7d7c4 · ΔE00 6.0

tritanopia

#dada98 · ΔE00 14.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNatural Tan at ΔE00 0.722: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Natural TanΔE00 0.722 · #dcd2c3
  • Canvas LuggageΔE00 0.79 · #e2d7c6
  • Plymouth BeigeΔE00 0.796 · #ddd3c2
  • Kestrel WhiteΔE00 0.932 · #e0d6c8
  • Urban BirdΔE00 0.937 · #ddd4c5
  • ErosionΔE00 1.05 · #ddd1bf
  • ShōjiΔE00 1.071 · #ded5c7
  • Grain of RiceΔE00 1.095 · #dfd2c0
  • Illusive DreamΔE00 1.153 · #e1d5c2
  • Casual EleganceΔE00 1.218 · #dfd5c8
  • Onion WhiteΔE00 1.277 · #e2d5c2
  • HanyaukuΔE00 1.308 · #e3d6c7

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