Nocturnal
#767d86
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
#767d86
RGB
118, 125, 134
OKLCh
58.7% 0.016 254.7°
CIELAB (D50)
52.0, -1.3, -5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 68.7; on black, Lc -33.0. 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 9.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.16:1 — large text only
Black text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707780 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
#767d86
protanopia
#7c7c86 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#7b7b86 · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#7a7a97 · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Shale at ΔE00 1.35: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep ShaleΔE00 1.35 · #737c84
- Downing SlateΔE00 1.406 · #777f86
- Bay WharfΔE00 1.845 · #747f89
- Liquid MercuryΔE00 1.901 · #757a80
- Carbon FootprintΔE00 2.112 · #7b808b
- Slate TintΔE00 2.155 · #7a818d
- NimbostratusΔE00 2.281 · #747880
- Blue MoodΔE00 2.507 · #7a808d
- BilberryΔE00 2.525 · #71777e
- Noble SilverΔE00 2.597 · #73777f
- Serious CloudΔE00 2.811 · #7d848b
- Tarnished SilverΔE00 2.911 · #797b80
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.