Bark
#5f5854
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
#5f5854
RGB
95, 88, 84
OKLCh
46.6% 0.011 51.9°
CIELAB (D50)
38.0, 2.4, 3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 9% 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 84.2; on black, Lc -17.8. 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 14.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.01:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f5854
protanopia
#595954 · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#5a5a54 · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#5c5c37 · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLahar at ΔE00 0.581: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LaharΔE00 0.581 · #5f5855
- SmokescreenΔE00 1.209 · #5e5755
- ThunderstruckΔE00 1.403 · #5f5755
- Equestrian LeatherΔE00 1.446 · #5b5652
- CavemanΔE00 1.479 · #625c58
- Mountain QuailΔE00 1.483 · #605b57
- Solid EmpireΔE00 1.574 · #635c59
- Wolf’s FurΔE00 1.592 · #5c5451
- Pure ZealΔE00 1.648 · #615753
- Timber BrownΔE00 1.717 · #605652
- Mousy IndigoΔE00 1.804 · #5c544e
- Wood AcresΔE00 1.888 · #645a56
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.