Magnet
#525054
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#525054
RGB
82, 80, 84
OKLCh
43.5% 0.007 308.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.3, 1.5, -2.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.7; on black, Lc -14.5. 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.
- 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
7.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.63:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#525054
protanopia
#505054 · ΔE00 1.3
deuteranopia
#515154 · ΔE00 1.3
tritanopia
#51514e · ΔE00 4.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPerle Noir at ΔE00 1.035: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Perle NoirΔE00 1.035 · #4f4d51
- Forged IronΔE00 1.153 · #555257
- FingerprintΔE00 1.18 · #555356
- Grey PinstripeΔE00 1.5 · #4e4e52
- Blackened PearlΔE00 1.604 · #504d53
- Soft PantherΔE00 1.76 · #555054
- CelluloidΔE00 1.816 · #515153
- Briquette GreyΔE00 1.948 · #515051
- Greyish BlackΔE00 2.069 · #555152
- Black SpaceΔE00 2.146 · #545354
- PavementΔE00 2.305 · #554f53
- Water OuzelΔE00 2.48 · #4f5156
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.