HueComb

Zombie

#dadead

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

#dadead

RGB

218, 222, 173

OKLCh

88.5% 0.065 111.5°

CIELAB (D50)

87.2, -7.3, 23.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 33% 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 19.2; on black, Lc -84.2. 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

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777a4d 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

#dadead

protanopia

#dedead · ΔE00 1.4

deuteranopia

#ddddad · ΔE00 1.4

tritanopia

#dcdcbd · ΔE00 4.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlass Green at ΔE00 0.642: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Glass GreenΔE00 0.642 · #dcdfb0
  • Timid AbsintheΔE00 0.663 · #dadfb0
  • Garden LeekΔE00 0.997 · #d7deac
  • Willow WindΔE00 1.213 · #d5dca9
  • Cocktail OnionΔE00 1.288 · #dce2ad
  • Spaghetti CarbonaraΔE00 1.475 · #ddddaa
  • Frosty MargaritaΔE00 1.568 · #dae2b2
  • TonicΔE00 1.797 · #deddaa
  • Sunlit LeafΔE00 1.829 · #d8d8a9
  • TuskΔE00 1.904 · #e3e5b1
  • Schabziger GreenΔE00 2.011 · #e2e2b5
  • April ShowersΔE00 2.012 · #dadeb5

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