Smoky
#605d6b
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
#605d6b
RGB
96, 93, 107
OKLCh
48.6% 0.022 295.4°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, 3.5, -7.6
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 81.9; on black, Lc -20.0. 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 5.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#605d6b
protanopia
#5d5d6b · ΔE00 1.7
deuteranopia
#5e5e6b · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#5e5e63 · ΔE00 5.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLegacy at ΔE00 1.24: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- LegacyΔE00 1.24 · #5e5a67
- Gobelin MauveΔE00 1.438 · #5e5a6a
- Mid GreyΔE00 1.767 · #5f5f6e
- MobsterΔE00 1.882 · #605a67
- SpikeΔE00 1.905 · #656271
- Prince RoyalΔE00 1.906 · #60606f
- FashionistaΔE00 1.947 · #66616f
- Shearwater BlackΔE00 2.219 · #5b5b6c
- Venus MistΔE00 2.384 · #5f606e
- Muted MulberryΔE00 2.387 · #66626d
- Sedona ShadowΔE00 2.673 · #665f70
- Lavender MoorΔE00 2.689 · #67636e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.