HueComb

Taupedo

#baaea8

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#baaea8

RGB

186, 174, 168

OKLCh

75.9% 0.016 48.5°

CIELAB (D50)

72.0, 3.7, 4.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 10% 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 42.5; on black, Lc -59.7. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.5 and 7.1 and 18.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80756f 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

#baaea8

protanopia

#afafa8 · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#b2b2a8 · ΔE00 7.1

tritanopia

#b4b478 · ΔE00 18.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLondon Coach at ΔE00 1.292: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • London CoachΔE00 1.292 · #bab0ac
  • Temperate TaupeΔE00 1.299 · #bfb1aa
  • BarrenΔE00 1.38 · #b9aba3
  • Vintage MauveΔE00 1.507 · #baafac
  • Cement GreigeΔE00 1.541 · #b5aba4
  • Riveter RoseΔE00 1.604 · #b7a9a2
  • Hipster HippoΔE00 1.664 · #bfb3ab
  • Muted MauveΔE00 1.803 · #b3a9a3
  • Matte GreyΔE00 1.947 · #b4a8a4
  • Turning TablesΔE00 1.98 · #b9aaa1
  • ThumperΔE00 1.982 · #bdada4
  • Oak RidgeΔE00 2.104 · #c0b0ab

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