Warm Ashes
#cfc9c7
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
#cfc9c7
RGB
207, 201, 199
OKLCh
84.0% 0.007 39.5°
CIELAB (D50)
81.4, 1.9, 1.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 8% 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 28.3; on black, Lc -74.6. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7674 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
#cfc9c7
protanopia
#cacac7 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#cbcbc7 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#ccccb3 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerious Grey at ΔE00 0.499: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Serious GreyΔE00 0.499 · #cec9c7
- DestinyΔE00 0.515 · #cfc9c6
- Amethyst IceΔE00 0.636 · #d0c9c6
- GreyishΔE00 0.806 · #cfcac7
- Off ShoreΔE00 0.953 · #d1cccb
- LunetteΔE00 0.973 · #d0c8c6
- AltoΔE00 1.02 · #cdc6c5
- Dusk in the ValleyΔE00 1.021 · #d2cac8
- Slight MushroomΔE00 1.027 · #cfc9c5
- Silver-TonguedΔE00 1.131 · #cdc7c7
- Orchid ShadowΔE00 1.133 · #cbc5c2
- Individual WhiteΔE00 1.191 · #d4cdca
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.