Gunsmoke
#7a7c76
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
#7a7c76
RGB
122, 124, 118
OKLCh
58.3% 0.009 121.8°
CIELAB (D50)
51.7, -1.7, 3.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 69.2; on black, Lc -32.5. 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
4.22:1 — large text only
Black text
4.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#767772 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
#7a7c76
protanopia
#7c7c76 · ΔE00 1.2
deuteranopia
#7b7b76 · ΔE00 1.2
tritanopia
#7b7b7c · ΔE00 4.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAttitude Grey at ΔE00 1.172: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Attitude GreyΔE00 1.172 · #7c7d75
- Moon BaseΔE00 1.27 · #7d7d77
- Coal MinerΔE00 1.592 · #777872
- Coastal StormΔE00 1.652 · #7d807b
- Not My FaultΔE00 1.98 · #7e7d78
- Iron GreyΔE00 1.987 · #7c7f7c
- Legendary GreyΔE00 2.001 · #787976
- Medium GreyΔE00 2.003 · #7d7f7c
- TapaΔE00 2.151 · #7c7c72
- Porcelain ShaleΔE00 2.191 · #808078
- BoulderΔE00 2.365 · #7c817c
- Stone MonumentΔE00 2.43 · #7a807a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.