HueComb

Chrome White

#cac7b7

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

#cac7b7

RGB

202, 199, 183

OKLCh

82.8% 0.022 98.2°

CIELAB (D50)

80.2, -1.0, 8.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 13% 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 30.3; on black, Lc -72.4. 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

1.70:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7768 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

#cac7b7

protanopia

#c7c7b7 · ΔE00 1.6

deuteranopia

#c8c8b7 · ΔE00 1.6

tritanopia

#c8c8ac · ΔE00 4.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUpstate at ΔE00 0.395: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • UpstateΔE00 0.395 · #cac7b8
  • Tea StainΔE00 0.625 · #cac6b5
  • PalatineΔE00 0.693 · #c9c7b6
  • White DuckΔE00 0.951 · #cecaba
  • French Grey LinenΔE00 0.995 · #cac8b6
  • Moss IslandΔE00 1.045 · #c8c6b4
  • Swiss LiveryΔE00 1.062 · #c6c3b4
  • Comforting GreyΔE00 1.201 · #c5c3b4
  • Secluded BeachΔE00 1.244 · #cac5b6
  • Simple StoneΔE00 1.565 · #cdc7b7
  • Coliseum MarbleΔE00 1.619 · #cec8b6
  • Ocean FoamΔE00 1.66 · #cac8b4

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