HueComb

Feta

#dbe0d0

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

#dbe0d0

RGB

219, 224, 208

OKLCh

89.8% 0.022 121.0°

CIELAB (D50)

88.5, -3.8, 7.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 35 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 10% 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 17.1; on black, Lc -86.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#74796a 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

#dbe0d0

protanopia

#dfdfd0 · ΔE00 2.4

deuteranopia

#dfdfd0 · ΔE00 2.5

tritanopia

#dedee0 · ΔE00 8.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Oak Grove at ΔE00 0.586: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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