Gauntlet Grey
#78736e
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
#78736e
RGB
120, 115, 110
OKLCh
55.8% 0.010 67.6°
CIELAB (D50)
48.8, 1.3, 3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 72.6; on black, Lc -29.1. 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
4.69:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.48:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.69:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#78736e
protanopia
#74746e · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#74746e · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#75755c · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRugged Suede at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rugged SuedeΔE00 0.551 · #78736f
- Vintage BootsΔE00 0.923 · #78726e
- AnchovyΔE00 1.713 · #756f6b
- TadpoleΔE00 1.783 · #7d7771
- Gris VolcanicoΔE00 1.89 · #797371
- DeconstructionΔE00 1.991 · #7b736b
- Abandoned PlaygroundΔE00 2.06 · #746e6a
- HomebushΔE00 2.139 · #726e69
- Unpredictable HueΔE00 2.146 · #7b746b
- Amazon StoneΔE00 2.149 · #7e7873
- BearsuitΔE00 2.207 · #7d756d
- Hulett OreΔE00 2.211 · #726f6c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.