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Webby Margarita

#cbd0b0
Notes

Webby Margarita (#CBD0B0) is a soft yellow with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (69°, 25%, 75%) places it in the muted band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#cbd0b0
RGB
rgb(203, 208, 176)
HSL
hsl(69, 25%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(69 69% 18%)
OKLCH
oklch(84.5% 0.043 114.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7996 0.8150 0.7022)
HSV
hsv(69, 15%, 82%)
LAB
lab(82.35% -7.21 15.34)
LCH
lch(82.35% 16.95 115.17)
CMYK
cmyk(2%, 0%, 15%, 18%)

Etymology

Webby
adjective

Old English webb, web — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, webby implies a pale-and-network-and-thin-thread quality, the pale color of attic-and-cellar long-undisturbed cobweb-and-spider-silk thin-network-pattern dust-collected surface. Sits at the pale-and-thin end of the grid, parallel to cobwebby and gossamer in usage.

Margarita
noun

The Mexican-American cocktail of tequila, lime, and triple sec — invented in the late 1930s on the Mexico–US border and served in a salt-rimmed glass. Margarita color refers specifically to a fresh-poured margarita in a coupe: a soft, slightly cool warm yellow-green with the optical clarity of citrus-and-spirits.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#cbd0b0
Original
#d5cdae
Protanopia
#d5cdb1
Deuteranopia
#cfccc7
Tritanopia
#cdcdcd
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
1.59:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
13.19:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##CBD0B0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7996 0.8150 0.7022)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.043

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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