Silent Night
#526771
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
#526771
RGB
82, 103, 113
OKLCh
50.0% 0.030 228.5°
CIELAB (D50)
42.2, -6.2, -8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 79.7; on black, Lc -22.1. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.3 and 11.1 and 15.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.54:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#526771
protanopia
#656571 · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#616171 · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#5d5d99 · ΔE00 15.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCadet at ΔE00 0.371: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CadetΔE00 0.371 · #536872
- Rush HourΔE00 0.492 · #536770
- Jabłoński GreyΔE00 0.606 · #536871
- Needlepoint NavyΔE00 1.138 · #546670
- DistanceΔE00 1.268 · #566a73
- West WindsΔE00 2.251 · #586d77
- Rolling SeaΔE00 2.51 · #5a6d77
- Plot TwistΔE00 2.7 · #56646b
- Moody BluesΔE00 2.994 · #586e75
- Made of SteelΔE00 3.13 · #5b686f
- Lithic SandΔE00 3.168 · #53626e
- GunmetalΔE00 3.17 · #536267
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.