Masala
#57534b
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
#57534b
RGB
87, 83, 75
OKLCh
44.4% 0.014 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, 0.5, 5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 86.6; on black, Lc -15.5. 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 8.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#57534b
protanopia
#53534b · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#54544b · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#55553b · ΔE00 8.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThunder Grey at ΔE00 0.533: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Thunder GreyΔE00 0.533 · #57534c
- Sturgis GreyΔE00 0.79 · #57544d
- Urbane BronzeΔE00 1.464 · #54504a
- Roycroft Bronze GreenΔE00 1.762 · #575449
- Dominant GreyΔE00 1.993 · #5a5651
- Fuscous GreyΔE00 2.004 · #54534d
- TarmacΔE00 2.086 · #5a5348
- PepperyΔE00 2.214 · #5b5752
- Renwick BrownΔE00 2.25 · #504e47
- Dunes ManorΔE00 2.347 · #514f4a
- Pure BlackΔE00 2.408 · #595652
- BridgewoodΔE00 2.594 · #575144
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.