HueComb

Dinosaur Egg

#cabaa9

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

#cabaa9

RGB

202, 186, 169

OKLCh

79.8% 0.030 69.1°

CIELAB (D50)

76.5, 3.8, 10.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 18% 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 35.9; on black, Lc -66.6. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.4 and 8.8 and 20.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.89:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837465 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

#cabaa9

protanopia

#bcbca9 · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#bfbfa9 · ΔE00 8.8

tritanopia

#c2c258 · ΔE00 20.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMesa Tumbleweed at ΔE00 0.906: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mesa TumbleweedΔE00 0.906 · #cdbdad
  • MooloolabaΔE00 0.971 · #c7b8a9
  • Steveareno BeigeΔE00 1.326 · #c5b5a4
  • EsotericΔE00 1.458 · #c4b5a4
  • White TigerΔE00 1.479 · #c5b8a8
  • BirchwoodΔE00 1.48 · #ccbeac
  • Creamy MushroomΔE00 1.504 · #cabdae
  • Bona Fide BeigeΔE00 1.846 · #cbb9ab
  • LoggiaΔE00 1.898 · #c4b7a5
  • Ivory BrownΔE00 1.909 · #c4b8a9
  • Cool BeigeΔE00 1.956 · #c6b5a7
  • Windrift BeigeΔE00 1.964 · #cebcae

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