HueComb

Slipper Satin

#bfc1cb

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

#bfc1cb

RGB

191, 193, 203

OKLCh

81.2% 0.014 277.0°

CIELAB (D50)

78.1, 0.7, -5.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 15% 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 33.2; on black, Lc -69.4. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#75767f 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

#bfc1cb

protanopia

#c1c1cb · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#c0c0cb · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#c0c0d1 · ΔE00 3.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAnon at ΔE00 0.691: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • AnonΔE00 0.691 · #bdbfc8
  • Powder LilacΔE00 0.934 · #bfc2ce
  • Lavender OilΔE00 1.065 · #c0c0ca
  • StarlightΔE00 1.231 · #bcc0cc
  • Great WhiteΔE00 1.422 · #bdbdc6
  • PensiveΔE00 1.591 · #c2c1cb
  • Whomp GreyΔE00 1.676 · #bec1cf
  • GhostΔE00 1.737 · #c0bfc7
  • Silverado TrailΔE00 1.955 · #b7bbc6
  • Grey DawnΔE00 1.967 · #bbc1cc
  • Viola Ice GreyΔE00 1.968 · #c6c8d0
  • Flat AluminiumΔE00 1.976 · #c3c6cd

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