HueComb

Bell Tower

#dad0bb

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

#dad0bb

RGB

218, 208, 187

OKLCh

86.0% 0.030 85.6°

CIELAB (D50)

83.9, 1.0, 11.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 61 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 24.6; on black, Lc -78.5. 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

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7663 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

#dad0bb

protanopia

#d1d1bb · ΔE00 5.1

deuteranopia

#d3d3bb · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#d5d591 · 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 isWool Skein at ΔE00 0.239: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Wool SkeinΔE00 0.239 · #d9cfba
  • Vintage EphemeraΔE00 0.478 · #d8ceb9
  • Oyster BarΔE00 0.492 · #dbd0bb
  • Toasted AlmondΔE00 0.525 · #dacfba
  • Warm OatsΔE00 0.572 · #d8cfba
  • Hog BristleΔE00 0.574 · #dcd1bb
  • Whitecap GreyΔE00 0.714 · #dbd0bc
  • Atlantic Fig SnailΔE00 0.723 · #d7ceb9
  • Cotton FibreΔE00 0.761 · #dad0bd
  • PebblebrookΔE00 0.953 · #d8d0bc
  • Ostrich EggΔE00 0.979 · #dcd0bb
  • Sandy ClayΔE00 1.039 · #dbd0bd

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