Wrapped in Twilight
#5f6d6e
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
#5f6d6e
RGB
95, 109, 110
OKLCh
52.3% 0.017 201.9°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, -5.3, -2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 76.9; on black, Lc -24.9. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.3 and 7.9 and 17.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.90:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f6d6e
protanopia
#6c6c6e · ΔE00 7.3
deuteranopia
#69696e · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#66668e · ΔE00 17.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrooding Storm at ΔE00 0.425: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brooding StormΔE00 0.425 · #5e6d6e
- SpaceboxΔE00 1.146 · #5c6b6b
- Mountain PassΔE00 1.288 · #5c6a6a
- Unreal TealΔE00 1.583 · #5c6e70
- American RiverΔE00 1.659 · #626e71
- Wing ManΔE00 1.994 · #5a6868
- Cat PersonΔE00 2.331 · #636d70
- Le LuxeΔE00 2.364 · #5e6869
- NevadaΔE00 2.499 · #666f6f
- BrooklynΔE00 2.697 · #586766
- MythΔE00 2.703 · #657175
- Slate TileΔE00 2.733 · #606e74
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.