Olympus White
#d4d8d7
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
#d4d8d7
RGB
212, 216, 215
OKLCh
87.9% 0.005 179.7°
CIELAB (D50)
86.0, -1.5, -0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 40 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 almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.0; on black, Lc -82.4. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.44:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747777 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
#d4d8d7
protanopia
#d8d8d7 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#d7d7d7 · ΔE00 2.3
tritanopia
#d6d6e3 · ΔE00 7.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindchill at ΔE00 0.5: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- WindchillΔE00 0.5 · #d5d8d7
- Grey ShimmerΔE00 0.573 · #d6d9d8
- Solemn SilenceΔE00 0.658 · #d3d8d8
- TundraΔE00 0.722 · #d6d9d7
- Twilight GreyΔE00 0.83 · #d1d6d6
- EvaporationΔE00 0.879 · #d1d5d3
- Bluish Lilac PurpleΔE00 1.07 · #d0d5d3
- Tsunami SkyΔE00 1.104 · #cfd4d3
- Silver ShadowΔE00 1.207 · #d8dad8
- ReflectionΔE00 1.235 · #d3d5d3
- ElementalΔE00 1.343 · #d0d3d3
- Silver SandΔE00 1.374 · #dadedd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.