Frozen Mammoth
#dfd9da
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
#dfd9da
RGB
223, 217, 218
OKLCh
89.0% 0.007 5.6°
CIELAB (D50)
87.2, 2.3, 0.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 39 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 19.1; on black, Lc -84.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7576 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
#dfd9da
protanopia
#dadada · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#dbdbda · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#dcdcc7 · ΔE00 11.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPebble Stone at ΔE00 0.474: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pebble StoneΔE00 0.474 · #e0d9da
- Cautious GreyΔE00 0.506 · #dfd8d9
- Minified CinnamonΔE00 0.654 · #ded9db
- GhostwaverΔE00 0.809 · #e2dbdb
- Shy PinkΔE00 0.977 · #dfd9dc
- Sharp PebblesΔE00 0.977 · #dbd6d8
- SubtleΔE00 0.98 · #dedadb
- Porcelain GoldfishΔE00 1.081 · #e1dad9
- So ShyΔE00 1.083 · #dad5d6
- Wishy-Washy RedΔE00 1.156 · #e1dadd
- Creek PebbleΔE00 1.176 · #dbd7d9
- Pearl PebbleΔE00 1.184 · #ded7da
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.