Wolf Pack
#78776f
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
#78776f
RGB
120, 119, 111
OKLCh
56.8% 0.012 101.0°
CIELAB (D50)
49.9, -0.8, 4.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 10% 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 71.3; on black, Lc -30.4. 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
4.50:1 — large text only
Black text
4.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#78776f 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
#78776f
protanopia
#77776f · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#77776f · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#77776c · ΔE00 2.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForest Floor Khaki at ΔE00 0.779: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Forest Floor KhakiΔE00 0.779 · #78766d
- Coal MinerΔE00 1.466 · #777872
- Green JeansΔE00 1.581 · #7a796e
- Portland TwilightΔE00 1.602 · #767671
- Dry MudΔE00 2.071 · #777672
- TapaΔE00 2.171 · #7c7c72
- Slippery ShaleΔE00 2.367 · #7b766c
- Pepper MillΔE00 2.459 · #777568
- Attitude GreyΔE00 2.473 · #7c7d75
- Bushland GreyΔE00 2.555 · #7f7b73
- SettlementΔE00 2.563 · #7e7970
- Moon BaseΔE00 2.573 · #7d7d77
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.