Camo Clay
#747f71
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
#747f71
RGB
116, 127, 113
OKLCh
58.3% 0.025 139.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.0, -6.3, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 68.9; on black, Lc -32.8. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.5 and 5.7 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.19:1 — large text only
Black text
5.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7a6c 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
#747f71
protanopia
#7e7e71 · ΔE00 5.5
deuteranopia
#7c7c71 · ΔE00 5.7
tritanopia
#7a7a90 · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDevon Rex at ΔE00 1.109: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Devon RexΔE00 1.109 · #717e6f
- Harbour Mist GreyΔE00 1.138 · #778071
- Ellis MistΔE00 1.344 · #778070
- BorealΔE00 1.658 · #717e73
- Garden HedgeΔE00 1.846 · #6f7d6d
- Thyme GreenΔE00 1.968 · #737b6c
- MalarcaΔE00 2.073 · #6e7d6e
- Lush SageΔE00 2.271 · #7b8476
- BoxwoodΔE00 2.274 · #707b71
- Sedge GreenΔE00 2.636 · #707a68
- BrusselsΔE00 2.673 · #6c7c6d
- Fir Spruce GreenΔE00 2.68 · #6d7969
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.