Catch of the Day
#6c685e
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
#6c685e
RGB
108, 104, 94
OKLCh
51.8% 0.016 88.8°
CIELAB (D50)
44.1, 0.2, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% 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 77.8; on black, Lc -24.0. 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 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.56:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.78:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.56:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c685e
protanopia
#68685e · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#69695e · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#6a6a4f · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSecret Passageway at ΔE00 0.594: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Secret PassagewayΔE00 0.594 · #6d695e
- ArchaeologyΔE00 1.179 · #6e6a5e
- Patio StoneΔE00 1.542 · #6b655b
- Cumberland GreyΔE00 1.558 · #68655d
- Dusty MountainΔE00 1.921 · #716d63
- ThunderousΔE00 2.21 · #6d6c62
- Shot-PutΔE00 2.215 · #716b63
- Grouchy BadgerΔE00 2.285 · #6f675c
- BraintreeΔE00 2.432 · #65635b
- Burnished PewterΔE00 2.498 · #716a62
- NaturalismΔE00 2.546 · #68685d
- Ploughed EarthΔE00 2.592 · #6c6459
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.