Abandoned Spaceship
#747a8a
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
#747a8a
RGB
116, 122, 138
OKLCh
58.0% 0.026 269.2°
CIELAB (D50)
51.1, 0.3, -9.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% 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 69.7; on black, Lc -32.0. 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 7.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.29:1 — large text only
Black text
4.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717787 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#747a8a
protanopia
#79798a · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#78788a · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#777798 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIce Blue Grey at ΔE00 1.187: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ice Blue GreyΔE00 1.187 · #717787
- FantasiaΔE00 1.644 · #73788b
- Lunar ShadowΔE00 1.663 · #707685
- Seattle HazeΔE00 1.729 · #777e90
- InfamousΔE00 2.376 · #777985
- Blue MoodΔE00 2.643 · #7a808d
- EncoreΔE00 2.781 · #6d7383
- Majestic MountΔE00 2.787 · #7c8091
- OverlookΔE00 2.8 · #717481
- Storm GreyΔE00 2.894 · #717486
- Purple FunkΔE00 3.125 · #747582
- Carbon FootprintΔE00 3.176 · #7b808b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.