HueComb

Pistachio Shell

#cfc5af

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#cfc5af

RGB

207, 197, 175

OKLCh

82.6% 0.032 86.5°

CIELAB (D50)

79.9, 0.9, 12.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 36 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 19% 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 30.8; on black, Lc -72.0. 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 5.1 and 5.3 and 12.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.71:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7662 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

#cfc5af

protanopia

#c6c6af · ΔE00 5.1

deuteranopia

#c8c8af · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#caca84 · ΔE00 12.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYuma Sand at ΔE00 0.365: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Yuma SandΔE00 0.365 · #cfc5ae
  • Salt ScrubΔE00 0.43 · #d0c6af
  • CanteraΔE00 0.499 · #cec5af
  • Cargo PantsΔE00 0.582 · #cdc4ae
  • TuftΔE00 0.946 · #cbc2ad
  • Prairie DuskΔE00 0.991 · #cec5ad
  • Trail DustΔE00 1.029 · #d0c4ac
  • Velvet BeigeΔE00 1.031 · #d0c5b1
  • Nomadic TaupeΔE00 1.057 · #d2c6ae
  • Bauhaus TanΔE00 1.058 · #ccc4ae
  • Ancient RelicΔE00 1.079 · #ccc1ab
  • Seine and SensibilityΔE00 1.1 · #ccc4b0

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