Paris Paving
#737274
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
#737274
RGB
115, 114, 116
OKLCh
55.4% 0.003 308.4°
CIELAB (D50)
48.2, 0.7, -1.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 73.2; on black, Lc -28.5. 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
4.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.39:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#737274
protanopia
#727274 · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#727274 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#727271 · ΔE00 2.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBank Vault at ΔE00 0.894: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bank VaultΔE00 0.894 · #757374
- DullΔE00 1.243 · #727171
- Ground TruthΔE00 1.255 · #757577
- Industrial RevolutionΔE00 1.407 · #737373
- Smoked PearlΔE00 1.574 · #6f6e70
- Sonic SilverΔE00 1.739 · #757575
- Steel ArmourΔE00 1.864 · #767275
- AstrograniteΔE00 1.899 · #757679
- Steel WoolΔE00 2.082 · #767574
- Iron MountainΔE00 2.206 · #757574
- Lucky GreyΔE00 2.31 · #777777
- SubmarineΔE00 2.464 · #7a7778
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.