Archaeology
#6e6a5e
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
#6e6a5e
RGB
110, 106, 94
OKLCh
52.4% 0.019 91.7°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, -0.1, 7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 77.0; on black, Lc -24.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.89:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e6a5e
protanopia
#6a6a5e · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#6b6b5e · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#6c6c4e · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSecret Passageway at ΔE00 0.585: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Secret PassagewayΔE00 0.585 · #6d695e
- Catch of the DayΔE00 1.179 · #6c685e
- Dusty MountainΔE00 1.539 · #716d63
- FlintΔE00 1.647 · #716e61
- Gladiator GreyΔE00 1.696 · #6e6c5e
- King’s CourtΔE00 1.84 · #706d5e
- ArchitectΔE00 1.854 · #6f6d5f
- ThunderousΔE00 1.959 · #6d6c62
- Knit CardiganΔE00 1.967 · #6d6c5f
- Patio StoneΔE00 2.39 · #6b655b
- Brandenburg GateΔE00 2.456 · #706f64
- Sandwashed DriftwoodΔE00 2.46 · #706859
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.