Pinot Noir
#605258
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
#605258
RGB
96, 82, 88
OKLCh
45.5% 0.021 350.2°
CIELAB (D50)
36.4, 6.8, -1.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% 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 85.7; on black, Lc -16.4. 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 7.6 and 8.1 and 29.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#605258
protanopia
#545458 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#565658 · ΔE00 8.1
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 29.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuail Hollow at ΔE00 1.5: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Quail HollowΔE00 1.5 · #5c4e53
- Purple PrinceΔE00 1.799 · #5b4d54
- Purple EmpireΔE00 2.104 · #5a4d55
- IndulgentΔE00 2.311 · #66565f
- Urban LegendΔE00 2.32 · #67585f
- Sophisticated PlumΔE00 2.341 · #5d5153
- JacquelineΔE00 2.527 · #5d4e50
- Wishing StarΔE00 2.74 · #604f5a
- KonaΔE00 2.8 · #574b50
- SpellΔE00 2.83 · #5e4f50
- Don JuanΔE00 2.858 · #5a4f51
- Prophetic PurpleΔE00 2.864 · #624f59
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.