Pelican
#c1bcac
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
#c1bcac
RGB
193, 188, 172
OKLCh
79.5% 0.023 92.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.3, -0.2, 8.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 14% 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 36.2; on black, Lc -66.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.90:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.06:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.06:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7768 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
#c1bcac
protanopia
#bdbdac · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#bdbdac · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#bebe9a · ΔE00 7.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEvening Dove at ΔE00 0.844: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Evening DoveΔE00 0.844 · #c2bead
- White PrimerΔE00 0.876 · #c3bdab
- Gentle SoulΔE00 1.006 · #c3bfae
- Techno TaupeΔE00 1.028 · #bfb9aa
- Stone FortressΔE00 1.041 · #c5c0b0
- Sierra MadreΔE00 1.08 · #c2bcae
- Phelps PuttyΔE00 1.111 · #c4bdad
- Historical RuinsΔE00 1.144 · #bfb9a7
- ApparitionΔE00 1.16 · #c2bca9
- Candle BarkΔE00 1.186 · #c3bdaa
- Bay SandsΔE00 1.223 · #c5beae
- Jogging PathΔE00 1.25 · #c0b9a9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.