Medlar
#d5d7bf
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
#d5d7bf
RGB
213, 215, 191
OKLCh
87.1% 0.032 110.9°
CIELAB (D50)
85.3, -3.8, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 17% 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 22.2; on black, Lc -81.1. 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
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777863 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
#d5d7bf
protanopia
#d7d7bf · ΔE00 0.9
deuteranopia
#d6d6bf · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#d6d6c6 · ΔE00 3.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeng Shui at ΔE00 0.593: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Feng ShuiΔE00 0.593 · #d7d9c2
- Veltliner WhiteΔE00 1.195 · #d7d8c3
- Slow DanceΔE00 1.291 · #dbdcc4
- Pine MistΔE00 1.376 · #d5d8bc
- BreatheΔE00 1.415 · #d1d2b8
- Pale CucumberΔE00 1.449 · #d6d5bc
- Garden GateΔE00 1.465 · #dadcc1
- Planet EarthΔE00 1.517 · #daddc3
- With a TwistΔE00 1.732 · #d1d1bb
- Aloe WashΔE00 1.752 · #d0d3b7
- BreezewayΔE00 1.779 · #d6dbc0
- Glowing GreenΔE00 1.797 · #d0d4c0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.