Venus Mist
#5f606e
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
#5f606e
RGB
95, 96, 110
OKLCh
49.3% 0.022 282.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.0, 1.9, -8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 81.0; on black, Lc -20.9. 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
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.38:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f606e
protanopia
#60606e · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#60606e · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#606070 · ΔE00 1.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrince Royal at ΔE00 0.779: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Prince RoyalΔE00 0.779 · #60606f
- Mid GreyΔE00 0.823 · #5f5f6e
- Damp BasementΔE00 0.999 · #5f6171
- CometΔE00 1.647 · #636373
- Concrete LandscapeΔE00 1.7 · #5c606e
- Mysterious NightΔE00 1.707 · #5c6070
- Script InkΔE00 1.904 · #60616b
- EventideΔE00 2.102 · #656470
- Shearwater BlackΔE00 2.283 · #5b5b6c
- Blue LinenΔE00 2.348 · #5a5e6a
- SmokyΔE00 2.384 · #605d6b
- SpikeΔE00 2.551 · #656271
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.