Shadows
#6b6d6a
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
#6b6d6a
RGB
107, 109, 106
OKLCh
53.2% 0.005 134.9°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, -1.3, 1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.9; on black, Lc -25.8. 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
5.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.02:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b6d6a
protanopia
#6d6d6a · ΔE00 1.2
deuteranopia
#6c6c6a · ΔE00 1.3
tritanopia
#6c6c70 · ΔE00 4.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIron-ic at ΔE00 1.039: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Iron-icΔE00 1.039 · #6a6b67
- Up in SmokeΔE00 1.169 · #6e706d
- Lunar BasaltΔE00 1.211 · #686b67
- Molten LeadΔE00 1.586 · #686a69
- Fade to BlackΔE00 1.655 · #676965
- Welded IronΔE00 1.684 · #6f6f6d
- Dark AshΔE00 1.754 · #6a6d6d
- ArmouryΔE00 1.825 · #6a6b65
- Sedona SageΔE00 1.921 · #686d6c
- Imperial GreyΔE00 2.108 · #676a6a
- Castor GreyΔE00 2.193 · #676a64
- Boat AnchorΔE00 2.32 · #6c6b6a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.