Night Rendezvous
#66787e
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
#66787e
RGB
102, 120, 126
OKLCh
56.0% 0.023 219.9°
CIELAB (D50)
49.1, -5.8, -5.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 72.1; on black, Lc -29.6. 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 9.0 and 9.7 and 17.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.55:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#66787e
protanopia
#76767e · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#73737e · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#7070a5 · ΔE00 17.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Beast at ΔE00 1.231: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sea BeastΔE00 1.231 · #62777e
- Crater LakeΔE00 1.707 · #63797e
- LabradoriteΔE00 1.742 · #657b83
- Gravel Grey BlueΔE00 1.82 · #637a82
- Scatman BlueΔE00 1.908 · #647983
- Relaxed NavyΔE00 2.178 · #627377
- Astronomicon GreyΔE00 2.403 · #6b7c85
- Goblin BlueΔE00 2.474 · #5f7278
- Desert NightΔE00 2.577 · #5f727a
- Hidden HarbourΔE00 2.715 · #60737d
- CatfishΔE00 2.798 · #657d82
- Winter HarborΔE00 2.84 · #5e737d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.