Your Shadow
#787e93
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#787e93
RGB
120, 126, 147
OKLCh
59.5% 0.033 272.8°
CIELAB (D50)
52.8, 1.2, -12.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% 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 67.6; on black, Lc -34.0. 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 6.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.04:1 — large text only
Black text
5.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#70768b 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
#787e93
protanopia
#7d7d93 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#7c7c93 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#7b7ba1 · ΔE00 6.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoulful Blue at ΔE00 0.984: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Soulful BlueΔE00 0.984 · #757c91
- Smokey DenimΔE00 1.437 · #747b92
- Seattle HazeΔE00 1.46 · #777e90
- Majestic MountΔE00 1.857 · #7c8091
- Blue GraniteΔE00 2.272 · #76798d
- FantasiaΔE00 2.44 · #73788b
- TempestΔE00 2.497 · #79839b
- Abandoned SpaceshipΔE00 2.64 · #747a8a
- CausewayΔE00 2.911 · #6f788f
- WaterlooΔE00 2.97 · #7b7c94
- Stand OutΔE00 3.034 · #7f8596
- Little TheatreΔE00 3.039 · #73778f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.