Bitter Melon
#cfd1b2
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
#cfd1b2
RGB
207, 209, 178
OKLCh
85.1% 0.042 110.3°
CIELAB (D50)
83.1, -4.6, 15.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 25.9; on black, Lc -77.2. 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
1.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#77795c 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
#cfd1b2
protanopia
#d1d1b2 · ΔE00 0.9
deuteranopia
#d0d0b2 · ΔE00 0.9
tritanopia
#d0d0b9 · ΔE00 2.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrinoco at ΔE00 0.731: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- OrinocoΔE00 0.731 · #d2d3b3
- Pickling SpiceΔE00 0.789 · #cfd2b5
- Longbeard GreyΔE00 1.069 · #ceceaf
- Aloe WashΔE00 1.139 · #d0d3b7
- Meadow GlenΔE00 1.274 · #ccd1b2
- Chilled CucumberΔE00 1.524 · #cbcdb2
- EavesΔE00 1.575 · #cecdad
- BreatheΔE00 1.68 · #d1d2b8
- Pine MistΔE00 1.961 · #d5d8bc
- EliseΔE00 2.097 · #d8d7b9
- Jardin de HierbasΔE00 2.377 · #c6caa7
- Olive MartiniΔE00 2.388 · #ced2ab
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.