HueComb

Silverplate

#c2c0ba

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

#c2c0ba

RGB

194, 192, 186

OKLCh

80.8% 0.009 91.5°

CIELAB (D50)

77.7, -0.1, 3.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 5% 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 34.0; on black, Lc -68.6. 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

1.82:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787771 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

#c2c0ba

protanopia

#c0c0ba · ΔE00 1.1

deuteranopia

#c1c1ba · ΔE00 1.2

tritanopia

#c1c1b4 · ΔE00 3.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight French Taupe at ΔE00 0.485: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light French TaupeΔE00 0.485 · #c2c0bb
  • San Francisco FogΔE00 0.513 · #c4c2bc
  • Knitting NeedlesΔE00 0.558 · #c3c1bc
  • Grey RoadsΔE00 0.805 · #c3c0bb
  • Noble GreyΔE00 0.916 · #c1beb9
  • Gull FeatherΔE00 1.154 · #c2c2bc
  • Grey NickelΔE00 1.265 · #c3c3bd
  • Natural GreyΔE00 1.287 · #c4c0bb
  • Ooid SandΔE00 1.349 · #c2beb6
  • Gallery GreyΔE00 1.362 · #c5c2be
  • ArgosΔE00 1.408 · #bdbdb7
  • Overdue GreyΔE00 1.562 · #c7c3be

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