Polished Limestone
#dcd5c8
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
#dcd5c8
RGB
220, 213, 200
OKLCh
87.5% 0.019 83.1°
CIELAB (D50)
85.6, 0.8, 7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 73 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 15% 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 21.8; on black, Lc -81.5. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c766a 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
#dcd5c8
protanopia
#d6d6c8 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#d7d7c8 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#d8d8af · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWheat Flour White at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wheat Flour WhiteΔE00 0.497 · #ddd6ca
- WindrushΔE00 0.658 · #dbd3c6
- Powder CakeΔE00 0.721 · #dfd7ca
- Moon DropΔE00 0.76 · #ddd5c9
- Sonoran SandsΔE00 0.837 · #ddd5c6
- Pebbled ShoreΔE00 0.868 · #dbd5ca
- EarthlingΔE00 0.871 · #ded6c7
- Pearl OysterΔE00 0.906 · #ddd6cb
- Always NeutralΔE00 0.924 · #dfd7cb
- Ballroom BelleΔE00 0.966 · #dad3c8
- ShōjiΔE00 0.97 · #ded5c7
- Quiet InterludeΔE00 0.98 · #ddd7cc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.